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THE MYSTERIES 

OF THE FORMATION OF THE 

EARTH 

THE RISING AND SINKING OF 

CONTINENTS 

THE INTRODUCTION OF 

MAN 

AND HIS DESTINY 

REVEALED 



In God's Own Way and Time. 



AUTHOR'S EDITION. 



BUFFALO: 

CHARLES WELLS MOULTON, 

1899. 



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53982 

Copyright 
IRA C. FULLER 

1898. 



V 



INTRODUCTION. 

"The contents of this volume were given by Spirit 
Josephine through the Mediumship of Mrs. M. T. Long, 
ley, the controlling Spirit Josephine — claiming at the 
time to be enrapport with a Band of Ancient Spirits 
from whom she received the matter which this volume 
contains. Josephine is a member of an advanced Spirit 
Band, who have selected the publisher of this work as 
the recipient of their intellectual and instructive favors. 
The various Intelligences of this Spiritual Band of wor- 
kers have communicated to Mr. Fuller through different 
Media in such manner as could leave no doubt in his 
mind as to their veracity and intelligence, and as to the 
similarity of intellectual vigor and of personal character- 
istics asjnanifested through each Media.'' 



CONTENTS. 

I. A Temple not made with hands eternal in 
the heavens, . . . . . . .9 

II. The waters of centuries have sung their requiem, 14 

III. Man on earth had been struggling with all sorts 
of adverse conditions, ..... 

IV. In the centre of the universe is a realm of glory. 

V. Soul germs, Law of reincarnation, 

VI. Elementals . . . . _ . 

VII. Being, 

VIII. Infinite unfoldment ..... 

IX. The lost Atlantis, 

X. Sound of many voices, A planetary Being, 

XI. How Planets are formed. The unknown, 

XII. Fashioning Earth, ..... 

XIII. Beauty of form and featre. Temples, Schools, 
Colleges, ....... 

XIV. Foreordination. Free will 

XV. The birth of man upon the planet earth. 

XVI. The evolutionary struggles of the planet 
Earth, 94 

XVII. The unfoldment of one type or one species 
after another, ...... 100 

XVIII. Jehovah. Worship, . . . .106 

XIX. Tutelary Gods, Ill 

XX. Iberna. Cabul, 117 

XXI. A strong beautiful and intelligent race, . 122 



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VI CONTENTS. 

XXII. Atlantis situated in the Pacific ocean, . 128 

XXIII. The High Priests, 134 

XXIV. Atlantis was a beautiful world, . . 140 

XXV. The inarch of man is forever on, . .145 

XXVI. Stancia the Oracle, 151 

XXVII. Celestial Visitor, . . . . . 156 

XXVIII. And all these things came to pass, . 162 

XXIX. The sound of celestial music, . . . 167 

XXX. The traditions of Atlantis, . . .173 

XXXI. Cabul, Iberna. Atlantis no more, . . 179 

XXXII. The region of the North American Conti- 
nent, . ....... 185 

XXXIII. Nations and races of the Earth, Aztecs, 191 

XXXIV. And the Nazarene came to Earth, . 197 

XXXV. The law of Causation. Eeincarnation, . 203 

XXXVI. Lo man in moving upward calmly sweeps, 

all dross and obstacles from out his path, 209 

XXXVII. Thus Budha — Confucius — Jesus . . 215 

XXXVIII. Evolution a nobe Law, . . .220 



Tutelary Gods and Ancient Spirits. 

IN THE seventh sphere or zone of spirit life, there is 
a grand temple of magnificent proportions and of 
sublime architecture. The material of which it is con- 
structed is of dazzling whiteness and seemingly of some 
translucent stone, yet this substance had never been cre- 
ated by the potters' art, nor had it been hewn from any 
quarry of stone. The temple, so grand and lofty in 
design and finish, so beautiful in its every part, so daz- 
zling in its whiteness, had not been erected by the slow 
laborious processes known to earth, but it has stood for 
thousands of years, a sparkling gem of architecture in the 
beautiful landscape, a tribute and a monument to the 
skill, the genius and the power of creative force in the 
human mind, for be it known to ye of earth, that this 
structure so extensive in its domain, so marvelous in its 
proportions, was brought into existance in the twinkling 
of an eye by the magical will and desire of Cabul, a God — 
yet a man — of the celestial world. 

For once on a time Cabul conceived the idea of a temple 
that should be a poem in stone, a gem in architecture, a 
temple that would be vast and spacious enough to hold 
all the people of the country if they should care to enter 
its courts at once or to stand within its magnificent halls. 
And as he thought of the temple "not made with hands" 
eternal in the Heavens the picture of it, complete in all 

(9) 



10 TUTELAKY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIEITS. 

its parts, finished in every detail of perfection possessed 
his mind, and there upon he stood in the centre of a 
great and beautiful valley, surrounded by lofty mountains, 
whose crests were tinged at times with the ruby or golden 
glow of the east, or tinted with the purple shadows of the 
violet hued western sky — and as he stood, with concen- 
trated thoughts and uplifted brow, he cried out with an 
intensity of fervor and command, "Be thou, oh temple 
sited upon this fertile plain, and be thou fixed as the 
mountains, and stable as the everlasting stars — Nor shall 
one stone be piled upon another, but thou shalt stand as 
one gigantic stone of dazzling purity that shall glow in 
the light even as pearl in its setting of priceless worth." 
And even as he spoke, there upreared as out of the 
empty air, a vision of a completed and gigantic structure, 
built upon a foundation of solid stone that glistened in 
the light — a temple with sculptured pillars and graven 
walls, a temple with its dome of splendor shining like an 
immense jewel in the light, and its doors were as of prec- 
ious metal and frosted with delicate tracery of human 
skill — its aisles were broad and beautifully inlaid with 
mother of pearl, fountains played in its courts, and rich 
draperies adorned its walls, and the temple filled nearly 
the whole valley with its capacious proportions, pushing 
the flowers and the shrubbery to the very feet of the 
mountains that stood in majesty sublime as if keeping 
ward over the scene. 

And all the people of the sphere rejoiced — for it had 
been told to them that one of their wise men should cause 
a temple to appear in a moment and that it should be 
known as the temple of Diernes, from whom the power 



TUTELARY GODS AN"D ANCIENT SPIRITS. 11 

had come to erect this mighty pile. Now be it known 
that Diernes is the tutelary Goddess that rules the seventh 
sphere — or rather that she and Diern as one being but as 
two entities, male and female are the tutelary Gods that 
rule the seventh zone. That these great entities are not 
seen by men, but when they are ready to show special 
favor to the people of their zone, they select one who is 
of great will power to accomplish some marvelous feat, 
that will also prove a blessing to the entire race. 

And thus had it been proven that the people of the 
seventh sphere were in great favor with Diern and Diernes 
for Cabul had been selected to produce this magnificent 
temple out of the air and by the simple effort of his will, 
that the people might have their own place of assembly 
and instruction in which the good of all should be shown. 

Now there are many powerful beings like unto Cabul, 
in the wondrous realms of the seventh sphere, and we 
have only chosen his work as an example of the great 
and stupendous works that such as he can produce at will, 
and it is thus that we mention the temple that for thous- 
ands of years has stood in its pristine beauty and glory, 
unmarred by the lapse of time, and unstained by the 
approach of age. For here is the realm of beauty and of 
light, there are no storms and wintry colds. All is light, 
all is beauty and order, there is no sign of weakness and 
of age, for the glory of God descends upon mankind. 

In the seventh sphere dwell a race of people who lived 
on the planet earth thousands of years ago — and beyond 
them from the seventh to the twelfth zone dwell people 
who were workers and thinkers in the mortal world, 
twenty and twenty-five thouands years ago. These peo- 



12 TUTELAKY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIEITS. 

pie are happily endowed in culture, in intelligence, wis- 
dom, and the power of achievement. Their works are of 
such a wonderful character that they would surpass the 
limits of human credulity on earth, should we attemp 
to describe them. In appearance they are glorious — of 
great height, some of them being ten and twelve feet 
high, of massive proportions with faces that shine as the 
sun. Their garments emit light as they move about, and 
a trail of glory always follows in their wake for it is the 
lumination of their being that streams out in beauty to 
brighten all things in their path. 

These are the Gods and Goddesses of the spheres — not 
known as such by their followers or pupils, but simply con- 
sidered^ philosphers,1 eachers and guides, but correspond- 
ing in person and power to the idea of Gods and God- 
desses which man on earth has in every age cultivated 
or expressed. In the remote ages of the early human 
history of life on- the planet Earth — beings of this class 
who now occupy the zones of spirit life from the seventh 
to the twelfth sphere as teachers and wonder workers — 
occasionally visited Earth, and now and then some seer 
or deep student into the occult sciences caught a vision 
of one or more of them, or were let into the secrets of 
the Heavens through a psychical revelation from some 
one of these ancient guides --and then the glory of celes- 
tial life was told or sung to mortals, and it was affirmed 
that God had come down among men to show the won- 
ders of his power, and to give council to his chosen. 
And the idea grew in the minds of the faithful that God 
or the maker of the universe had a form like unto that of 
man, only more glorious and majestic, and that He deigned 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 13 

to commune with men on earth. Thus through legend 
and tradition, the belief in the personality of God grew, 
and He was mentioned as occupying a throne in the cen- 
tre of the Heavens from which He commanded the earth 
and all that upon it dwelt. 

But the Gods of the spheres are many and not one of 
them has assumed nor attained the height of Infinite 
power, yet their achievements are vast and wonderful, 
by the side of which the grandest invention and achieve- 
ment that science has ever made through her most pow 
erfnl agents of earth seem as but the building of mud 
toys in the street by tiny urchins, as compared to the 
marvelous mechanics and constructors of the highest ex- 
ecutive skill and art that mind and brawn on earth have 
ever shown. 

The Zones of Spirit habitation from the seventh to the 
twelfth are not entirely peopled by those ancient intelli- 
gences of whom we write — on the contrary those Zones 
are principally inhabited by advanced human Spirits who 
dwelt on earth in comparatively modern times. These 
people make happy homes and follow grand pursuits in 
the spheres, and are constantly achieving more and more 
wondrous tasks, for they are under the guidance and in- 
struction of the Ancient Beings mentioned before, who 
remain upon these particular Zones from choice, doing 
service to the dwellers therein, teaching them "the way, 
the truth and the life." 

The ancients who dwell upon the lofty plains and pur- 
sue their beneficent works among the people who look up 
to them with reverence and veneration hold a special in- 
fluence over certain portions of each sphere below them. 



14 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

Thus Cabul as a wonder worker and a seer has an influ- 
ence and charge over all the phases and labors of phenom- 
enal mediumship on Earth. Not that he personally visit s 
each medium and labors with him or her, but all the vari- 
ous intelligences who are employed from Sphere to Sphere 
belong to him in the work of producing physical phenom- 
ena through earthly mediumship and are under his control. 
Camaga, another ancient, is one who lived on earth twenty 
thousand years ago. He was a great seer, studied the stars 
and foretold events— he has charge over the labors and the 
manifestations of clairvoyance in spheres below him, in- 
cluding Earth. Darneva, another ancient, one who pos- 
sessed grand healing powers, has charge over the healers 
and the physicians and they know nothing of his power; 
for the guides and familiar attendants of mediums do not 
divulge the personality of that source of energy or of in- 
fluence, that comes to them through intermediary chan- 
nels from one original Humanitarian fount and guide. 



II. 

We have mentioned the names of several of the power- 
ful Ancients who keep watch and ward over the lives 
and missions of various people on earth and in the spheres 
below their own domain, and there are many such exalted 
characters, who come and go at will — nor are they lim- 
ited to the planet Earth and its surrounding Spirit 
worlds, but they can journey far out into space, and hold 
communication with planetary Spirits of other planets 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 15 

and systems, bringing back the information they receive, 
and imparting it as they think wise and best to the human 
beings of the spiritual Zones who are prepared to receive 
it. In the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth Spheres 
dwell many Ancient Greeks and Eomans, as well as other 
people of various earthly languages and nationalities, 
Philosophers, Sages, Bards and Teachers, but while these 
have been in the higher realms for perhaps four or five 
thousand years, and although their powers of achieve- 
ment are very grand, these personages are but as mere 
pigmies in learning and ability, and as infants in age ani 
expression, compared to the more antique human beings 
of which we write, and in these papers we will not stop to 
deal with them — Cleopatra of the Nile is but a Belle com- 
pared to the ladies of high degree in spiritual realms, who 
have sojourned in their heavenly homes for twice ten 
thousand years. 

Now be it understood by our readers on earth that 
these ancient beings did not all belong to one race or 
clime in the remote ages of the past when they dwelt on 
mortal shores, some of them lived in one part of the 
world, and flourished under one dynasty, and some, in 
another. Since their time on Earth the whole face of 
your planet — Oh, Mortals — has been changed where now 
are oceans and seas, lands and nations offered up their 
riches to the eye or grasp of man — where once, Oceans 
rolled in rythmic music and deepest harmonies, Conti- 
nents now stretch from the shores, of one mighty body 
of water to another. 

It is not an easy task to make you realize in just what 
locality the submerged continents of the past lie; but 



16 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

there have been more than one country inundated, and 
buried where the waters of Centuries have sung their 
requiems for thousands and tens of thousands of 
years. Even the most radical and enthusiastic of 
scientists whose geological researches have convinced 
them of the antiquity of Earth, have no idea how 
old their planet really is — and were they to be told, that 
fifty thousands years ago men and women lived on earth 
— not as cave dwellers and uncouth savages, but as pol- 
ished, cultivated, intellectual beings, who had a knowl- 
edge of the arts and sciences, they would scout the story 
as that of some wild Munchausen, who was striving to 
learn how far he could tax the credulity of the world by 
his assertions and tales, and yet it is true that in the past 
as remote as that mentioned in the preceding paragraph, 
human beings of cultivated tastes and great knowledge 
lived on earth and pursued their tasks and missions with 
fidelity and skill," but as the centuries rolled by their 
lands became inundated, their homes and temples destroyed 
their possessions lost, their arts and sciences banished and 
their races extinct, all because of the violence of Nature, 
in her efforts to illiminate certain objectionable elements 
from the planet, and to bring all people and all things 
into a line of unfoldment that would ultimately produce 
the highest state of harmony on Earth. 

But, while these people were thus swept from the face 
of the earth they were not annihilated, for their homes 
were to be found in the spirit world. Such was their 
advancement in all that goes to make up a truly Spiritual 
selfhood — that when destruction came to the earthly, 
they were at once prepared to enter the fifth and sixth 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 17 

spheres, without having to be domiciled upon any of the 
Zones below that number. 

By and by we shall tell something of the earthly Conti- 
nents that these different peoples inhabited and also of 
their habits, customs, employments, and temples of those 
times, but now, we are dealing with them as Spirit enti- 
ties above the Earth, and have something to say in regard 
to their work and life on high. 

First let us remember that ere the planet earth was 
fashioned and sent rolling in its orbital line through 
space, that grand, majestic beings from older planets in 
the Heavens, who were hundreds of thousands of years 
old, had been commissioned and equipped with intelli- 
gence, wisdom and power, to operate upon the germ life 
of the planet and vitalize it with such elements as would 
enable it to grow and develope into planetary activity. 
Now, these tutelary beings — two in number, grand as 
Gods, male and female, had assigned to them as subord- 
inates to do their bidding in the planetary work and ward- 
enship, many human entities from the planets who are 
themselves as beautiful as the morning and as powerful 
in intelligence and expression as a mortal could conceive 
it possible to be, and it is such as these that are occasion- 
ally seen and known as planetary Spirits by media or clair- 
voyants upon the Earthly plane. 

As we have said the earth was brought into working 
order under the influence of these high entities, and they 
still preside over its destinies, and labor for its develop- 
ment towards ultimate perfection. But these beings were 
not busy alone with the earth, they had something to do 
with its spirit Planet and Zones also, to magnetize them, 



18 TUTELARY GODS ANT> AtfCIESTT SPIRITS. 

or to infuse into them something of the human electrical 
and magnetic properties that would mingle with the forces 
sent off by the earth and its people by radiation and vibra- 
tory force, and help to bring them into proper condition 
for the habitation of Earth's children when they should 
throw off the body of matter and enter the spirit realm. 

Let us now return in thought to the ancients who dwelt 
on your planet twenty or more thousand years ago. 

They were wise and exalted. Why? Because certain of 
the Planetary Spirits perhaps a hundred or more, had 
years before descended from their estate, and under the 
care and counsel of the Tutelary Gods, had thrown off 
their own bodies, and as human souls without part or 
form had mingled with the essence of magnetic human 
life on Earth, being absorbed by the parental organs of 
human beings, and been born on earth of harmoniously 
mated beings, thus finding and bringing the conditions of 
Spiritual pefection and completeness into the mundane 
sphere, and so it happened that these planetary spirits 
became earthly beings for a time. They were endowed 
with grand proclivities and as they grew from infancy to 
youth, their pure and wise characteristics were so appar- 
ent, their intelligence so remarkable that they were given 
every opportunity to expand their powers and to cultivate 
their intellects, but the highest teachings and the grand- 
est truths were imparted to them by the planetary Spirits 
who attended them, and as the years advanced, these gifted 
mortals became teachers and sages and high priests of learn- 
ing and of art, and they taught the people of their lore. 
Most of them were quick to learn, being intuitive, inno- 
cent, and susceptible to high influences. Temples were 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 19 

built for the wise men and women, in which to found 
schools of philosphy, of art, of music, of literature, of 
science and of manual training. All the children were 
taken in charge by them, and for a period of twelve or 
more years kept under the direct teachings and guidance 
of the wise Ones. The result of all this was that a race 
of healthy, simple, pure minded, highly endowed and cul ■ 
tivated men and women was reared, and when they passed 
from earth they were prepared to find homes and labors 
in the spheres above the first five surrounding the earth, 
but the planetary spirits who had been elected for re-im- 
bodiment, also passed from earth becoming at once what 
they, were before, planetary Spirits, but only for a little 
time. Again they were reborn on earth, again did they 
grow to be teachers and wonder workers, and again lead 
the generations onward to grand achievements and power. 

But at length the fateful hour came when the countries 
— each in turn, some of them many, many centuries earlier 
than others, were submerged and their people swept 
from the face of the earth, and again the waters subsided 
and new continents were born, these being peopled by 
voyagers from others countries and by the Spirit world — 
for remember that the whole globe has never been sub- 
merged at once. 

We will now turn our attention to the Spirit Zones at 
the times when the first submergence of a continent oc- 
curred. These Zones were by that time seven in number, 
there was also a spirit planet. All of these were well 
vitalized by their spirit inhabitants and by emanations of 
magnetic human life sent off by the earth. But the 
Tutelary Gods and their helpers knew there was much 



20 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

work to be done- The Gods foresaw that strange races 
of men were yet to inhabit the earth, that art and science 
and philosphy would be lost to it for thousands of years, 
and that for a time it would descend to a state of sav- 
agery and darkness, ere it would develope a high civiliza- 
tion and evolve a more beautiful atmosphere and climatic 
condition. 

And these Gods foresaw that the lower spheres of spirit 
life would be needed by human entities who would be 
cast from earth in a state of crudity and ignorance, and 
also that the first sphere would be darkened from its pris- 
tine light by the emanations from crude and sensual lives 
on earth and become unfit for the habitation of any but 
themselves, and that the succeeding two or three Zones 
would become stepping stones — or abiding places, for 
spirits in gaining experiences and in working towards the 
higher realms, and thus the Gods set the higher Spirits 
who had advanced from earth to exalted states to work in 
creating new Zones for the blessing of human souls. 



III. 

And the work of these exalted ones was to at once 
gather from the realms of space the floating nebulae of 
worlds and to breathe upon it and infuse it into the 
emanations from the lives of the inhabitants of the sev- 
enth Zone, which emanations encircled that Zone like a 
girdle of light — and as these magnetic works went on, and 
the new circle gathered density and strength under the 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 21 

manipulation of the exalted ones on the eighth world for 
spirit habitation grew into shape, and people from the 
seventh Zone moved upward to it, erecting temples and 
palaces, laying out parks and gardens, by the exercise of 
will power and magnetic vibratory force, and immediately 
the Gods and the higher Spirits of the eighth Zone went 
to work to create still another Zone which was accom- 
plished in due time, and the work of ascension or removal 
went on, the inhabitants of each sphere ascending to the 
other, until the first, second and third were left for future 
use of earthly beings, nor did those who removed from 
one belt of existence to a higher have to occupy the dwell- 
ing or to accept the gardens of those who had preceded 
them, for the latter ere they took their departure — either 
by will force, or by electrical and magnetic impulse, 
caused all those to vanish that their successors might 
create their own dwellings and lay out their own grounds, 
according to their own taste and skill, for it is by such 
works and also by deeds of sacrifice that the human entity 
grows. All this building of Zones out of magnetic aura 
and will of human beings, supplemented with the plane- 
tary dust of the Heavens took time, and in the meanwhile 
the greater portion of the earth was passing through long 
periods of cold, desolation, and darkness. Its people had 
degenerated, only remnants of once powerful tribes 
existed, and these had to remain in the shades of discom- 
fort and unhappiness, only a deteriorated class of once pow- 
erful races existed, and these were obliged to battle witli 
the elements, nor could they regard the hither forces of 
intuition and spiritual light, but the germs of greatness 
did not die, the possibility of growth and the promise of 



22 TUTELAKY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIEITS. 

future culture were there, and as the Earth trundled on, 
conditions were reaching it by which a high and lofty 
humanity should be reborn. 

But the lowest sphere of spirit life was now being ten- 
anted and its newcomers were people of feeble intelligence 
and of brutal instincts, undeveloped and ignorant human 
beings unto whom, missionary spirits from the higher 
realms came, as teachers and friends. Man on earth had 
been struggling with all sorts of adverse conditions, atmos- 
pheric disturbances discomforted him, need of the neces- 
sities of life made his position an unenviable one, but 
slowly through the ages, the natural energies of his being 
began to assert themselves, and he commenced to grow in 
intellectual vigor until his powers of calculation, of fore- 
thought and of judgment enabled him to plan and to con- 
trive means and methods by which he might overcome the 
inclemency of the weather and to provide a means of sub- 
sistence for himself.and family. And so through the cen- 
turies humanity struggled and grew, until it has reached 
its present status of civilization and progress, but never 
since the floods came and continents were submerged has 
mankind developed a race of such lofty, intellectual, scien- 
tific, and progressive people as existed in those prehistoric 
days — nor will the earth be populated by such an humani- 
tarian and exalted people, until ten thousand years or 
more have rolled away. For in those days the races of 
earth were quickened and vitalized by the power of the 
Spirit to a greater degree than they have ever been since. 
Planetary Intelligences voluntarily taking up a birth and 
a life on earth for the purpose of educating and spiritual- 
izing the people, brought to the earlier races of man an 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 23 

influence and a power from superior realms that lifted 
them above the ordinary levels of earth to a plane of in- 
tellectual and moral vigor, which the planet per se was 
unable to unfold. But, there is hope and there is promise 
for the future good of earth, humanity on the planet is 
constantly growing nearer and nearer to the Divine. The 
psychical and moral forces of human beings are operating 
all along the line of progress, and the race is rising age by 
age towards a grand and lofty altitude of mental and spir- 
itual light — there is more progression and a steady moving 
onward and man, triumphant in his march realizes the 
growth of centuries and is glad. But at present we will 
deal with the ancients in their sphere of light on high. 

From the eighth Zone that had been inhabited by 
advanced entities went out a powerful magnetic current 
charged with elements of stability and beauty which were 
vitalized by the electrical forces imparted to them by the 
Tutelary Gods and their planetary agents, and which in 
time created the ninth belt that swept in glory around 
the eighth, and when this beautiful region was ready for 
their habitation innumerable companies from the spheres 
below ascended to its realms, while the places they had 
vacated, were again filled by the promotion of the people 
in spheres below — and so on through the centuries new 
spheres being created one after another according to the 
need, and to the constantly unfolding intelligence of their 
creators, until a cycle of twelve Zones or belts surrounded 
the earth, each one peopled by sentient entities according 
to their Spiritual development and all completing the first 
portion of creative work set for the Ancients for their ini- 
tiative labor in the creation of worlds, by their Tutelary 
and Planetary guides. 



24 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

During all these centuries the Ancients busy with their 
own work felt and knew that there were still higher tasks 
in which they might eventually engage, for although by 
their energies and magnetic forces they could create a 
spirit Zone, yet they were not capable of building a planet 
or world in space such as are seen in the expanse of Heaven . 

Tutelary Gods and their subordinates were the powers 
that performed such work, and although certain of the 
Ancients could at times catch a clairvoyant glimpse of 
them, the majority of these Zone builders had never be- 
held the powerful beings who led them on. However, 
the work of Zone building went on. After the twelfth 
came the thirteenth belt which was thrown out by and 
around its predecessor, and so on continually until twenty- 
four Zones or belts complete the Cycle, of the ages of the 
past, and as each Zone became completed, certain of the 
inhabitants of the sphere below it began to ascend to its 
regions of delight — but many of the Ancients remained 
on the various Zones, preparing to serve as teachers, 
guides, and wonder workers for the human family below 
them, rather than to ascend to higher spheres, and while 
many others did move on and on, in order to hand down 
their influences and instructions to their co-workers among 
the people of the lower planes, yet there are countless 
numbers of the Ancient philosophers, sages, and magi- 
cians, who still dwell upon the different Zones from the 
seventh to the tenth, whose works are as wonderful in the 
eyes of their pupils as would be the manifestations of Gods 
to the inhabitants of earth. The ancients who dwell 
among the people of any sphere below the thirteenth are 
not only sages, philosophers wonder-workers, artists and 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 25 

scientists in their own powers, but they are also seers 
and mediums and by their psychological qualities they 
are enabled to receive communications from the ascended 
souls beyond them. Thus they are doubly equipped in 
their labor of helpfulness to humanity. Every Zone has 
its Tutelary Gods — two, male and female — and these 
Tutelary Gods of the Zones are all under the guidance of 
the superior pair of Tutelary Gods who were instrumental 
in bringing the Earth, and its Spiritual planet, into ex- 
istence. 

For thousands of years the first belt or Zone surround- 
ing the earth has been the abode of Earth bound spirits. 
Those human beings who have lost their mortal forms, 
but who have not developed sufficient Spirituality at their 
earthly decease to ascend into the truly spiritual realms, 
and who are therefore for a time obliged to remain in 
close contact with earth and to develope a higher faculty 
of perception before they can reach the light. 

This first Sphere is veritably an intermediate place be- 
tween Earth and Spirit life, it is the vestibule into the 
Spiritual realms, and to many souls it is a region of dark- 
ness and cold, because the emanations from such lives as 
are dark and turbulent and chilling — in their selfishness 
and iniquities — on Earth, make up its atmosphere. 
Humanitarian spirits from various spheres beyond descend 
into these lower states to work as missionaries, as teachers 
and as physicians among the lowly and hopeless ones 
there, and to guide them into a better path. 



26 TUTELAEY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 



IV. 

After a time the missionaries succeed in their labor, 
and the darkened souls are illuminated with an interior 
light, and quickened into activity, by the magnetism of 
their helpers, until they grow out of their unhappy state, 
and ascend to the second sphere in which they become 
workers, helping those below them whom they may reach 
with sympathy and love, and thus working out their own 
progress toward the higher realms. 

Among the missionaries who labor with the denizens of 
lower spheres as teachers and guides are many of the 
Ancients, who take great satisfaction in imparting their 
wisdom and lore to such souls as are prepared to receive 
or to be guided by them. 

The first or lower sphere of the Spirit life is a make up 
of strange classes, they are from every race and clime, 
and because of their propensity to physical life, they ex- 
hibit all the traits of character and habit which possessed 
them on Earth. All really selfish and exacting people, 
all licentious or brutal persons, all who are coarse, de- 
graded and vicious gravitate to the first sphere — some of 
these may remain for many years in its darkened precincts 
and not even know that they have passed through death. 
Others soon throw off the chains that bind them, grow 
weary of the wickedness and sin, and under the influence 
of the missionary spirits, gradually evolve a higher self- 
hood, that enables them to rise to upper spheres, Some 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 27 

of the beings who inhabit the first sphere were of high 
position on earth, there they appeared to be better than 
they were. There are Kings there, and Queens who pre- 
sided over the destiny of Nations. Priests and Bishops 
who held the authority of the church and the welfare of 
the people in their grasp, and various others of rank and 
name, but none are there, whether King or yeoman? 
priest or layman — who were unselfish and who tried to 
do right. 

Many of those who dwell in the lower sphere have a 
strong hypnotic power, and when they come in contact 
with susceptible beings on earth they cause these sensi- 
tives to see what they desire. Thus, one who was once a 
monarch — but who because of his cruelty and selfishness 
did not develope a spiritual nature strong enough to take 
him above the earth — may appear to a sensitive as a grand 
exalted being clothed in purple and fine linen, while in 
reality in spirit he may be dwarfed and misshapen and be 
garbed in rags. One who was an autocratic and domineer- 
ing priest on earth may appear to a sensitive as an Angel 
of light, while in reality he is of dark and forbidding 
countenance and form. But if the sensitives on earth 
cultivate their own higher faculties, and aspire upward to 
spiritual things they will not long be deceived by such 
pretenders, for the truth and the light will be made 
known to them. The Ancients have power over the lower 
forces and planes of life and therefore they are of great 
service in breaking up haunts of evil-doers upon the lowest 
plane, where corruption and plotting against the comfort 
or happiness of men abound. 

All spirit entities who are above the lower'," planes emit 



28 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

a light from their persons, the higher in the scale of 
advancement a spirit is, the brighter will he shine.. 
Ancients who have dwelt on the higher realms for thou- 
sands of years appear to be all light — they shine as the 
sun but the glory of their presence, dazzles the sight and 
confuses the brain of those who dwell in the darkness of 
earth. Therefore these Ancients make use of agents in 
reaching the Earth bound souls, agents who are less bril- 
liant and advanced than themselves, and these are sent 
out to prepare the way for the coming of an Ancient, 
whose light is a searching power that reveals the hidden 
things in life and brings them forth. After the agent 
has succeeded in reaching and infusing some needed qual- 
ity of magnetism into some infested place, where, perhaps 
hundreds of degraded beings congregate, one of the 
ancients will come forward and by the light which he 
sheds produce a rapid vibration in the atmosphere which 
affects the condition of the people, and stirs them up to 
a greater activity. This reaches their encrusted spiritual 
nature and impulse, and awakens in them a desire to 
know something more of life, and to come to better things, 
and they are thus prepared for the teacher, who is to 
come and enlighten them. Frequently hundreds of be- 
ings are thus stirred into new activity at once. 

The Ancient is not seen by them as a human being, but 
only as a brilliant light, but the teachers and guides who 
are of the modern age, who take them in hand, when the 
Ancient has done his work, are seen and felt — some 
dimly, others more powerfully — and are recognized as 
beneficient human beings. 

Just as soon as a dweller in the lowest sphere is awak- 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 29 

ened to his true condition, and exhibits a desire to re- 
form, and to grow out of his unhappy state, his own vibra- 
tory force is increased, and this enables him, to slough 
off the murky, weighty elements, that hold him to the 
earth, and to generate an aura that is bright and of a lit- 
tle better quality than that formerly made. This is mag- 
netically strengthened by the elements imparted to him 
by the teachers and guides. He then becomes sufficiently 
freed from his thraldom, to cease to be an earth bound 
spirit, and is assisted to rise to the second sphere. Here 
he may be placed in some school, sanitarium, retreat, or 
other place of protection and training, according to his 
needs where he will be afforded the care he requires for 
the encouragement and growth of his higher qualities. 
There are no schools nor sanitariums on the first Zone of 
spirit life, but there are places of restraint there where re- 
fractory spirits are sometimes confined until they are pre- 
pared to receive the light, and the magnetism that will 
enable them to rise to a higher state. 

Every sphere of spirit life as far as we know, is peo- 
pled by human intelligences, although many of those 
upon the lowest Zone might be mistaken rather for ani- 
mal, than for spiritual beings, while those upon the high- 
est planes, appear more as Gods, or beings of light than 
as human entities. There are many other human spirits, 
who remain for years in the homes and haunts of their 
friends, or former associations on earth, and who know 
nothing of the spirit worlds that rotate with the earth in 
space. 

We are told by celestial beings of antiquity, in the com- 
munications which they give to us through intermediary 



30 TUTELARY GODS AOT A^CIE^T SPIRITS. 

Oracles, that in the centre of the Universe, is a realm* of 
glory and of power, the vastness of which no human soul 
can conceive, and that in those infinite realms exist beings 
— who serve the highest Light and Intelligence of all 
being — and that these entities far surpass, all likeness to 
human Nature, so Divine and Omnipotent have they be- 
come, but that nevertheless J;hey have evolved out of the 
human family age by age and in reality they are per- 
fected human souls. 

In contradistinction to this we are informed that upon 
the earth, interpenetrating its atmosphere and mingling 
with the aura of caves, and forests and mountain retreats, 
even, too, amid the haunts of J men in city streets and in 
frequented as well as remote places, is a sphere of life 
that is neither animal nor human but which is between 
the two. In this sphere creatures dwell that are evolv- 
ing conditions that will in time, bring them into the 
human kingdom,, and enable them to become possessed of 
human forms, and born in such, of earthly parentage, 
such pigmies or elementals can only enter the human race 
and amalgamate with it, by forming a part of the lower 
savage tribes of humanity on earth, but when they pass 
out of that initiatory stage of human existence they will 
be vitalized with a spiritual spark that will send them on 
the road to Immortality as human entities although they 
may have to be reincarnated again and again on earth 
through one tribe and another to higher estates ere their 
mortal births shall end and their mundane progress be 
complete. 

These elements have a certain degree of intelligence the 
life principle of them has existed before in one or another 



TUTELARY GODS AtfD ANCIENT SPIRITS. 31 

type of animal form. They are active, shrewd, sometimes 
docile sometimes mischievous. Sometimes men on earth 
become aware of their existence and make friends with or 
servants of them. Sometimes peculiarly organized sensi- 
tives are annoyed by them while others are amused by 
their antics and pranks. Many decarnated spirits even of 
an advanced and highly intelligent order know nothing of 
the existence of these pigmies, Elfs, and Gnomes, but the 
Ancients knew and understood the elementals and are in- 
strumental in bringing them into a state in which they 
are fitted to be born as human beings, for it is the electric 
magnetic force of such Ancients that vivifies the life prin- 
ciples of the elemental into the quality of spirit activity. 



V. 

In the temples of the seventh spheres it is explained to 
us by the Ancient Guide who rules that Zone, how human 
beings are brought — as entities into the atmosphere of 
earth, and how they become possessed of a mortal form. 
Now there are several sources from which humanity 
springs, that is we mean human entities on earth, although 
primarily the life essence and soul germ springs from one 
Eternal and never changing Source. 

In our lessons at the temple we are taught that the life 
element or soul germ exists as a point of light and that 
this springs from the Parent Fount of all Intelligence and 
Power in the centre of the universe. That these points 
of light endowed with the potency and possibility of In- 



32 TUTELAEY GODS AtfD ANCIENT SPIKITS. 

finite expression and unfoldment along lines of intelli- 
gence and power, are sent off by millions from the Cen- 
tral Light — and that they are borne by irresistable cur- 
rents of attraction to various parts of the Universe, com- 
ing into the atmosphere of different planets, and absorbed 
by such planeary atmosphere and influences as they hap- 
pen to reach, which influence and forces impart to them 
qualities peculiar to themselves. With the Soul germs 
that are swept from the Central Light to the planet Mars 
or that of Jupiter or Saturn, we have at present nothing 
to do. These have their own mission, unfoldment and 
character. So do tne life germs of the planet Earth. 
Each Soul germ as a point of light in its original form is 
surrounded by a mass of nebulous matter sublimated and 
refined, that is its protective shield while it floats in the 
atmosphere. When it becomes absorbed by the magnetic 
aura of some female on earth at the moment when the 
human foetus is conceived, the germ feeds upon this 
gelatenous element which supplies nutriment to it, until 
gestation proceeds and the embryo can draw sufficient 
nourishment and vitality from the parent stock. If it 
can do this regularly and connected the embryo grows and 
in time becomes a living child, for the soul germ grows in 
strength and power as the growth proceeds, if the vitality 
is not supplied to the embryo according to the processes 
of nature the soul growth or expression is checked, there 
is a premature birth and the soul germ is cast back into 
the atmosphere to feed upon magnetic forces supplied to 
it by the Ancients, until it can again be absorbed by some 
human aura on earth and be born as a living child. Those 
who enter the parental atmosphere as soul germs only, are 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 33 

not as yet human entities, they are the undeveloped germs 
of human beings ; if they are cast forth before they have 
had an expression and experience on eartli — of at least a 
few months or years. 

Which stimulates an activity in the cranial region and 
produces intelligence — they will have no conscious, senti- 
ent life, in the spirit, but they must be magnetically 
and electrically breathed upon and cared for by the 
Ancients who understand the law, and brought back into 
the environments of human beings on earth, to be born as 
living children. The embryo becomes active and its 
human faculties are quickened by stimulating forces from 
the spirit guardians, some little time before its mortal 
birth. At birth it is Started on the road to intelligent 
unfoldment, in some cases the development of its intel- 
lect is more rapid than in others — owing largely to the 
qualities and elements absorbed by it, either from its 
earthly parents or from its spirit attendants, or both. If 
such a child as this passes from the mortal form a few 
months after birth, it may or may not find intelligent 
growth and expression in the spirit world. Some of these 
infants gain sufficient spiritual and electrical vitality in a 
few months of such experience to enable them to take a 
hold of spirit life proper, others do not. But if they do 
not, they appear as enlarged points of light which are kept 
burning by the magnetism of wise spirits until they can 
take advantage of the law of reimbodiment and be born 
again. 

While reading these statements the reader may natur- 
ally inquire if these are truths, why do many spiritualists 
claim to hold communion with spirits, who have grown 



34 TUTELAKY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIEITS. 

from immaturity to manhood in the higher spheres, and 
who purport to be the children of immature birth who 
had no expression on the mortal side. We shall come to 
the consideration of that in this paper which is now deal- 
ing with manner and methods of human birth, and ex- 
pression on earth. 

The human beings who first come to earth as soul germs 
— or points of light — from the Great Central Power, are 
as a rule gentle, timid, somewhat quiet and of a peaceful 
character — although these qualities may be, and often are, 
more or less modified, increased or altered by parental in- 
fluence, prenatal conditions, or planetary action under 
which they are gestated and born, after gaining an earthly 
experience of greater or less duration they pass into the 
spirit world and enter associations and environments there 
— after the lapse of centuries they have their choice, 
whether to be reincarnated on earth as mortals or not, 
or them there is no arbitrary law in the matter, they can 
decide for themselves. Some of these souls during their 
first journey on earth became philanthropic teachers and 
ministers of helpfulness to their fellow men, some are 
artists, musicians, or perhaps circumstances and training 
have made them lawyers, soldiers, warriors. It matters 
not, what they were on earth, some may have been per- 
verted into criminals — they need not be reincarnated un- 
less they elect to be. But the law exists by which they 
may take advantage if they wish. Perhaps one who loved 
his fellowmen on earth may himself have been a sufferer 
or weak in moral rectitude. After experience and teach- 
ing in the spirit world, his sympathies may have grown 
very broad. He beholds the suffering and the sorrow of 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 35 

earth, and longs to help appease the woe. He decides 
to return to earth — he acquaints some Ancient guide with 
his desire. The guide selects for him the pathway to be 
trod, and helps to prepare the conditions for the new 
birth. The candidate for reimbodiment is taken in charge 
by the Ancient, and is put into a magnetic slumber, dur- 
ing which his spirit body becomes very attenuated. When 
the time of transit comes the magnetized being is borne 
to the atmosphere of the expectent parents, and the spirit 
or soul entity of that one is drawn from its dissolving body 
like a stream of vaporous substance and is absorbed by the 
magnetic atmosphere of the mother. Here it remains in 
a quiessant state during the first three months of gesta- 
tion, when it comes into contact with the embryo and in 
proper time begins to vitalize it until a living child is born 
under such conditions, and in spite of circumstances, as 
will make of him a leader in moral teaching and conduct, 
or a grand helper through sympathy and love of his fel- 
low men. 

This we give only as an illustration, others may be re- 
born under different earthly conditions and for different 
purposes. Each rebirth is an advance in point of intelli- 
gence, power, opportunity and labor, over the preceding 
one of the same entity. The spirit does not remember its 
former incarnations on earth or beyond, because its work 
and mission in the present has solely to do with earthly 
things, but in time, after it has passed into the supernal 
spheres it will see it all and understand every such rein- 
carnated soul is under the guidance of an Ancient, per- 
haps two, besides being assisted by other more modern 
intelligences. Frequently these guides keep all knowl- 



36 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

edge or remembrance of former re-embodiments from 
their charge deeming it best to do so. Every spirit entity 
thus reborn on earth is a sensitive, the psychical power is 
quickened, many of them are grand mediums, through 
whom, some blessed humanitarian work is performed, or 
some grand truths taught. 

The spirit bodies of these entities have become so very 
attenuated and etherial by the time they are yielded up 
when the ego comes back to earth, that they are at once 
dissolved into the atmosphere, their elements forming a 
sort of aura around the gestatory form, as a nucleus of 
the spirit body of the coming child. Sometimes the first 
expression on earth of the same germ of a human entity 
is so feeble and lacking in vitality, that it has no special 
claim upon its earthly parents — and sometimes the earthly 
parents are so utterly dissimilar in every essential to the 
offspring that there is no real kinship between them, 
when the child under such circumstances passes out of 
the body it has no parents. Such a child is reborn on 
earth of parents to whom it is spiritually attached and is 
a kin, it may be he shall live many years and at length 
pass on when he recognizes the parents who preceded him, 
or he may pass away first, and welcome his parents when 
they come. On the other hand, although now a vital en- 
tity because of his former embodiment, but now stamped 
with certain qualities lacking before. Qualities caught 
from the new — and — real — parents and from various 
sources, he may not be able to hold on to the mortal, and 
may be expelled or sent back into the spirit realm. There 
as an immature birth. Yet the spirit claims the parents 
he cannot reach in mortal, as his own, and it is such chil- 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 37 

dren who manifest through mediums, as spirit entities, 
and claim kinship with the parents to whom in soul power 
they were drawn. 

VI. 

There is no inconsistency in the statement often made 
that children who had not matured on earth, can live and 
grow in spirit and communicate with those who would 
have been their mortal parents, had they been properly 
born and reared. Nor, in that of other spirits having to 
be reborn, in order to gain a vital hold of immortal life. 
All this we have endeavored to show in the preceding 
papers. It is rather unfortunate that we have to depend 
on mortal forms of expression and phraseology in depict- 
ing these things, because such forms are inadequate to our 
needs in this work. 

The law of reimbodiment exists, it exists for the needs 
of any soul that desires to take advantage of it. Many 
human beings who are idiotic on earth are but undevel- 
oped soul germs, for them the law is beautiful, and 
adapted to their needs, others who were bright and brainy 
on earth, but who desire further discipline, and experi- 
ence on the mortal plane find the law a beneficient one 
to personal needs. In cases where the soul is sufficiently 
vitalized, to pursue its growth along lines of intellectual 
unfoldment, the law is not an arbitrary one, for every in- 
telligent being may decide for himself whether he needs 
or desires to be reimbodied or not. 

In cases where the human entity is deprived of stimulous 
for its growth, or where the soul germ has taken no hold 



38 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

of immortality as a personal entity, the law is an arbitrary 
and a beneficial one. 

There are other cases in which this law is a power for 
good although not operating as one of reincarnation in 
human form with these beings until later on in their 
development, and in our efforts to explain, how humanity 
through its various forms of creation — if we may be per- 
mitted to use the word — comes into sentient and intelli- 
gent being on earth, we cannot ignore this branch of our 
theme. 

In the course of this narrative of Tutelary Gods and 
Ancient Spirits, we have mentioned elementals, who exist 
as strange and diminutive creatures, that appear to be 
neither human or animal in form and intelligence but a 
grade of being between these two states of active and 
concious existence. 

Prom the knowledge we have derived from our Ancient 
teachers we learn that these elementals are formed from 
the essence, life principle, and sublimated elements, of 
certain forms of animal life which have evolved a con- 
sciousness and activity above the purely animal, yet not 
entirely of the human. That these creatures are real 
existences, more of matter than of spirit, and only invis- 
ible to mortal sight and touch because of the rapidity of 
their vibrations which the slower, duller senses of physical 
consciousness cannot reach, but that these same elementals 
often have a mischievous influence over certain human 
beings. The explanation is made that these elementals, 
are yet to be vitalized into spirituality by the soul germs 
of intelligence that spring from the great fount of Being, 
and that each of these creatures are capable of absorbing 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 39 

one of these soul germs, and thus coming into contac- 
with sentiment human life, of both the spiritual and the 
physical plane, it becomes amalgamated with the higher 
essentials of conscious activity. Attracting to its self a 
soul germ, an elemental is in turn drawn with irresistable 
force into the atmosphere of a human female in the lower 
ranks and types of humanity — such for instance as the 
Australian bushmen and it attaches itself to such a person. 
In time, the female forms the necessary connections and 
relationship with her male partner to conceive and bring 
forth a child, that child is an embodied elemental vitalized 
with a soul germ, but the lowest type of human life has 
not sufficient spiritual vitality tojnake its way and develop 
into active spiritual consciousness in the spirit spheres. 
The child grows on earth and lives its allotted time, it 
may be few or many years. It dies, the life principle does 
not go back into the elementals, nor does it ascend to the 
spirit realms, it remains in the atmosphere of earth, re- 
sembling a blue flame without parts or consciousness. In 
time it is absorbed by the magnetic aura of some fertile 
human female of a higher type of humanity than are the 
lower forms of human life, and it is reborn as a living 
child, now vitalized with sufficient soul energy and spir- 
itual impulse to start it on its upward path of progress as 
an immortal entity, in this case the law of reincarnation is 
a necessity, an arbitrary and a beneficial one. 

It is the Ancient spirits who lived on earth, many thou- 
sands of years ago, who have dealings with the law of re- 
incarnation, and who understand it sufficiently, to give 
wise expositions of it to mortals, did they feel it necessary 
to divulge their knowledge of it. But there are few of 



40 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

these very ancient people who hold direct communication 
with denizens of earth, although many of them have 
charge of sensitives and media, upon this and the other 
planes of sentient being, now and then intelligences who 
dwelt in the realms of the past on earth, in periods so re- 
mote that the annals of the time of Moses and the patri- 
arch are pages of modern history, as compared to their 
records, they do find mediums in this age of the planets 
unfoldment whom they personally direct or control for 
some special purpose of achievement or object of guid- 
ance, but the instances are rare, for as a rule the Ancients 
labor through intermediary agents or messengers and pur- 
sue their way, unknown to or by the people of earth. We 
have given a slight explanation, of the birth of souls on 
earth, and the subject of pre-existance arises. That the 
soul germ starts out somewhere and some time on its pil- 
grimage and growth as Light we are assured, although pre- 
vious to its appearance on earth as an intelligent and con- 
scious entity it may have passed through many experi- 
ences, or previous or subsequent — to that mortal birth, it 
may be the creature of many incarnations. When the 
soul is thrown off from the great central soul and Sun of 
all Light, it is taken under the care and inspection of 
Tutelary Grods — or planetary spirits who build worlds — 
and it is never lost sight of during its eternal growth. 
Starting out as a point of light, it takes up its round of 
experiences and of existences while millions of years roll 
in silent grandeui through the ages. But as these cycles 
of time and of experience revolve, the soul is gradually 
growing toward the great central Sun of all infinite wis- 
dom and Intelligence— that which man calls God, and as 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 41 

it thus grows onward it loses not one grain of its own indi- 
vidual consciousness. But forever on it sweeps, gradually 
becoming a God of infinite light and power, a Being of 
Light forever more. 

Finite man on earth asserts that as the beginning of a 
straight line must have an end, so man if created, or sent 
off from a greater force, having a beginning as a human 
entity must have an end, but we assert that the premises 
and conclusions only deal with physical and finite things, 
that man starts out as a point of light, containing within 
its self, the potency and power of self existence and of self 
unfoldment. That this potency and power is fed and kept 
alive — no matter through what darkness or vicissitudes 
the ego may pass in its disciplines by the electrical force 
it draws from the great Central Light, and by the mag- 
netism exerted upon it by the Ancients or the Tutelary 
Beings, until it has developed its own inherent self sus- 
taining forces that like the motion of the planets is per- 
petual in activity and power. 

The human soul starting out, as a point of light, grad- 
ually developes into a perfect', sphere of Light — it glows 
and scintellates within the human form, sending out a 
halo that is now and then only perceived by keen sighted 
eyes of earth. Its radiations extend through the solar 
plexus, and is distributed by the system of nerves to 
every part and portion of the human organism — with 
highly developed entities, these radiations not only illume 
the entire being, but send out gleams of light that brighten 
all things in their path. These radiations that stream 
from the soul centre, to and through all parts of the 
organism, creates an active vibration, that according to 



42 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

the spiritual statue and growth of the individual, produce 
emanations and auras of magnetic force which clothe — so 
to speak — the light rays and forces of soul, when the hour 
of physical dissolution arrives, the soul force ceases to 
vibrate so rapidly, it concentrates its powers upon the 
withdrawal of its light, and its magnetic aura from the 
body, and it begins the ascension from the head, gradually 
drawing to its self all the forces and elements belonging to 
its life, which go to make up the covering, or body spirit- 
ual, through which it is henceforth to act and serve. 

The aura, or emanations of an active soul force, not 
only infil the organism and clothe the inner being, but 
they also send out forces and elements that cluster in a 
sphere around the individual as a protective shield of mag- 
netic life — which in turn can be imparted to the sick and 
depressed as a life-giving force — the active soul generating 
the aura, according to its needs and works. 



VII. 

We have told of the birth of souls on earth, and of their 
unf oldment in various degrees — through possible successive 
Incarnations and in other ways. We will in these pages 
tell something of the rebirth of souls as spiritual entities, 
from the dissolving mortal body. But first we must con- 
sider, what is spirit and what its relation to and connec- 
tion with the human ego. Let no man mistake Spirit as 
only a part of himself, something possessed, but rather let 
him consider Spirit as the Ego Himself or the entire 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 43 

humanized and individualized Being. We are told that 
"God is Spirit — and they that worship him, must worship 
Him in Spirit and in truth," and in considering the In- 
finite Light and Power, as perfected Intelligence as organ- 
ized Wisdom, manifested through its body which is the 
Universe per se, we can realize that God is Spirit and as 
such the Eternal quality of Conscious Selfhood must only 
be Adored. 

Man in infinite and limited conditions cannot behold the 
entire Universe of worlds, nor note the Infinite fields of 
space, therefore he can have no adequate conception of its 
form and parts — in their completeness. By the Ancient 
teachers we are taught, that man is a microcosm of the 
universe. We are also taught, that the universal ether is 
the breath of God — or Infinite Intelligence — and that the 
universe itself is the body of the Infinite Intelligence, the 
Soul force of which is the Central Light in the Heart of 
the Universe. As the Soul of Deity can only be con- 
ceived as Light so the Soul of man is Light, the life prin- 
ciple of Being, and as God or Soul Force in intelligence 
and light, radiates and breathes through the entire 
Universe which is self created and organized by this In- 
finite Soul Life, becoming an individualized Being. 

So man is by the Soul force created an organized per- 
sonified entity. God, the Infinite, centered in Soul force 
in the middle of the Universe is eternal Spirit by being 
co-ordinated as light, force and energy with the elements 
that it has thrown off and organized as a living form. 

Thus too, man as primarily Soul Force, throwing off 
and creating forces, and elements that it organizes into 
shape and substance, becoming through his co-ordination 



44 TUTELAKY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIEITS. 

with these elements a living Spirit, Spirit being the re- 
sult of Soul action and becoming the vehicle through 
which intelligence is displayed as individualized and con- 
scious Ego. This in turn creates activity in the molecules 
and elements of matter that are energized by the electrical 
force and magnetic impulse of Spirit, and organizes the 
temporal body which clothes the indwelling Self — selfhood 
that is the real personality, and which enables Spirit to 
exercise its proclivities in a mortal career. 

Soul force and Spirit combined make up the individual- 
ized eternal Selfhood that forever lives in conscious activ- 
ity and Intelligent Knowledge and power, and as the 
Spirit entity. As the Soul force of Infinite Deity as a cen- 
tral power, is located in the centre of its body — the Uni- 
verse — from which it radiates its energy, to every portion 
of its stupendous frame — so the Soul force of a human 
Ego, is centred in the solar plexus of the individual form, 
whence it radiates its energy and light to every portion of 
its Being. The soul force is not situated in the Brain, 
although the latter holds a concentration of force owing 
to its delicate construction and machinery — which how- 
ever is no more wonderful in its processes and functions 
of utilizing and expressing the intelligent energy sent to 
it by the Central Light, than is the cardiac organ wonder- 
ful in its processes and functions of activity in connection 
with the circulatory life of the body. Intelligence can be 
conveyed through any ganglionic plexus of the body — so 
even can it be expressed by the finger tips of sensitive in- 
dividuals, and the gray matter of the brain is not peculiar 
to the cranial structure, for traces of it can be found in 
various portions of the human form. 



TUTELARY GODS AND AKCIEKT SPIRITS. 45 

A man may break his neck and life departs from the 
mortal form, so too may one be shot through the heart or 
in some other vital part of the body and the spirit be ex- 
pelled from contact with that external form. But the 
seat of life — or the Soul force of the individual is not at 
the base of the brain, even though in breaking his neck 
he is cut off from earth, nor is it in the cardiac region, but 
in reality it is situated nearer to the centre of the body, 
even in the solar plexus itself. 

The Soul is light — the solar plexus is the lighted net- 
work that gives activity to the human frame. The organs 
of generation are also situated in the middle region of the 
body, and they are — in the highest conditions of func- 
tional activity — controlled quite as much by the Soul force 
as by the physical impulse of the Ego, Self. It was not 
ignorance, nor was it lust that prompted the phalic wor- 
ship of the Ancients on earth, but in their reverence for 
and worship of the organs and processes of generation, 
they beheld the workings of infinite Life and Power, and 
recognized the all pervading glory and fructibility of cre- 
ative soul energy, force and light. 

And now having assured our readers, that the Soul is 
the vital flame or light that vivifies all things, and that 
Spirit is the correlation of forces and elements that Soul 
force attracts to its self, and which are vitalized by the 
Soul flame or life principle, the whole making up an in- 
telligent entity, we will proceed to a consideration of the 
processes by which a spirit entity is born into the other 
life from the earth form. 

As we have said at the hour of mortal dissolution, the 
Soul energy gathers to itself the auraific principles and 



46 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

energies which it needs and with these it rises from the 
body emerging from the head, and gathering around the 
body in a cloud-like substance, it seems to float at first, 
like a shadow in the atmosphere. In the centre of this 
cloudy vapor may be seen a point or star of brilliant light 
— which is the Soul or vital flame, and from this radiate 
rays of light to every part of the glorious cloud, gradually 
the (waves) of vapor assume shape and human propor- 
tions, the head and upper parts appearing first, from its 
filmy drapery, the lower limbs and feet appearing last. 
The brilliant centre still pulsates and glows, and can be 
discerned by the true clairvoyant eye. From this lighted 
point a slender cord of light is seen stretching from the 
newly formed being, to the fast becoming inanimate clay 
that was once called a man. This is the magnetic cord 
that has united spirit and body, during all career of the 
latter and it corresponds to the umbilical cord that unites 
mother and child during the gestative period. But now 
the spirit body is formed, the soul no longer vitalizes the 
mortal frame. The magnetic cord becomes loosened from 
the stiffening clay and the processes of material death are 
completed. 

Nature is now satisfied to take care of the mortal 
through her agents of dissolution and change, while she 
sends the triumphant spirit upon its lofty march through 
the spheres. 

We are writing now of the ascension of a good man — 
that of a viscious one would not be so beautiful and high, 
his spirit body would be composed of dark and noxious 
elements, and the soul force could not glow and palpitate 



TUTELARY rtODS .VXD AXCIEXT SPIRITS. 47 

in light through its density, although the processes of 
death in his case would be the same as in that of the un- 
selfish man. We become the clairvoyant eye and behold 
the ascension of the pure man. The aura arising from the 
departing spirit, is like a billow of foamy lacework as 
beautiful as is the glory of the dawn, it circles around and 
envelopes him, and as we gaze in interested awe we dis- 
cover that it shapens into curves and folds around his 
form until it flows around him in graceful garments that 
become him well. And now he is attired and ready for 
his upward march, his face beaming with the inward light 
is turned towards the stars. His form palpitates with new 
life, he is equipped for the new life, and he is not alone. 
Beautiful beings wait upon him and attend his way. 
These are former companions, friends and guides while 
they are watched over by Ancient beings, who have been 
superintending and assisting in the closing earth scene 
which separates a spirit from the mortal form. 

And now the magnetic cord is severed, the earth form 
is "dead" the spirit form is alive, it cleaves the upper air, 
passing the first, second and third Zone, it takes no cog- 
nizance of them — its attractive force, its affection and 
affinities are beyond. Perhaps its speed is slackened at 
the fourth sphere. If its home is there, yea, it involun- 
tarily decreases its speed and pauses — its Zone is reached. 
The spirit floats onward again, he has entered the fourth 
world of spirits, he gazes around him at the enchanted 
scene. Mountains, valleys and rivers meet his view. 
Gardens, lawns, and flower bedecked roadsides invite the 
eye, pretty homes and stately dwellings are before him. 



48 TUTELARY GODS AiNTD AKCIENT SPIRITS. 

Kindly faces and outstretched hands welcome him. He 
is at home. Old scenes are swallowed up even in memory 
for a time by the beauty opening before him. He is at 
Home, a beautiful house stands open, it is filled with 
comfort and delight — he enters it and is made welcome. 
Tender ministrations prove to him the deathlessness and 
the glory of human love. He is at home. The old time 
worriments and sacrifices lose their sting, the shadows 
have given way to sunshine, the winter of life has been 
turned to golden Spring, a smile of content is on his lips 
and in his heart, he is at home. 



VIII. 

In relating in substance what we have learned from our 
Ancient guides concerning the birth of the Soul, its ex- 
periences through matter, its expansion and growth, 
through one or various earthly incarnations, and its ad- 
vance as an intelligent Spirit entity into worlds beyond, 
we have shown that the Ancient intellects of by-gone ages 
are thoroughly alive and active, and that they are occu- 
pied in the practical affairs of human life upon this planet 
as well as in the spirit sphere. Individuals who wonder 
what humanity can find to engage its attention during the 
ages of eternity, have no conception what ever of the vast- 
ness of Life, its scope and possibility, nor can they grasp 
the idea of Infinite Unfoldment and achievement. To 
Spirits who are busy building worlds, guarding and guid- 
ing planets in their evolutionary growth, superintending 
their affairs and progress and destinies of races of men, 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 49 

and of Nations, supervising the birth and the expnsnaoi 
of Soul germs, looking after the fate of elementals, gui-d 
ing and guarding re-embodied beings through their one 
or several stages of mortal experiences, studying the 
Heavens and the methods of life upon the various planets, 
experimenting with the electrical and magnetic forces and 
currents of the Universe, creating wonderful productions 
of Art, Science, and of magical skill, studying the Occult 
and psychical laws and conditions of being, and achieving 
glorious results from all this reflection, research, effort, 
and expenditure of force and energy. Time is nothing, they 
take no heed of its passage, a thousand years is as but a 
day, and the birth and passing of a nation or a race from 
earth is as interesting and important to them — and no 
more — as is the development, purpose and results of a 
colony of ants, or a swarm of insects to the scientific mind 
who studies their habits, customs, and nature, and who 
trains — or guards — these creatures at will. 

To such who have seen Nations and Continents rise and 
disappear, who have passed thousands of years in the 
world of Causes, dealing with the laws of Nature as the 
skillful mechanic deals with his tools, for the purpose of 
producing finished works with them, Eternity is none too 
long in which to study, to plan, to labor, and to achieve. 

When we started out with these articles, it was our 
desire and intention to describe "The wonders of the 
Heavens and the glory thereof," but as we realize the lim- 
itations of phraseology and the boundaries of comparison 
and of similitude we despair in our task in giving an ade- 
quate conception to mortals of the grandeur of that life, 
which the beings who figured upon the planet Earth 



50 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

twenty-five thousand years ago had in the celestial sphere. 
We will, however, at this junctme select one of these 
Ancient characters, and tell you something of the scope 
of his influence and the grandeur of his works. This in- 
telligence is known by the name of Iberna — a name that 
is significant in its meaning, and which literally inter- 
preted would read — "Light bringer." — This Being when 
seen by the finite eye appears as a majestic personage of 
massive form and of benevolent countenance — and, but 
for the peculiar light that radiates from face and figure, 
he might not be taken for other than for any one of the 
Intelligences of Antiquity who might have sojourned on 
earth from two to five thousand years ago. 

But the Earthly history of his being was far back in 
Antiquity, his home having been on the Ancient conti- 
nent of old Atlantis where he grew in stateliness of 
character, and exercised his office of high priest, and 
teacher in the Temple, made sacred to his people by the 
light and influence which infilled it from above. To be a 
high priest in his age did not mean to be a functionary of 
the church, nor a proselyter of creeds — but it meant to 
be a holy man, a devotee and mystic. To be a spiritual 
guide, also a teacher and a physician. Hence, as high 
priest ministered to the mental, Spiritual and physical 
needs of his people — he was a father beloved by his chil- 
dren, a teacher followed by his pupils into the various 
pathways of knowledge which he opened to them, a phy- 
sician studying the physical comfort of his patients and 
showing them by precept and example how to keep pure 
minds in clean and healthy bodies, and a spiritual guide, 
whose ethical and psychical inculcations and revelations, 



TCTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 51 

appealed to the intuition and the reason of his flock. 

Such was Iberna, the high priest of the Temple Aruna, 
on the continent of old Atlantis, in the city of Humenia, 
a crescent shaped city, backed by the glorious mountains 
of Prunia, whose internal fires once in a thousand years 
belched forth their molten offering to the sea; and 
fronted by the beautiful blue waves of an inland bay that 
flowed in rythmic music at its feet. 

In the city of Humenia, beautiful buildings of tinted 
stone, and other grand structures of marble for private or 
public assembly reared their spacious walls, and groves of 
fruitful trees, the foliage of which glinted in the soft and 
mellow sunlight like jewels of rare and brilliant beauty. 
In the heart of this crescent shaped city — from which, on 
either side stretched the right and left horn of the crescent 
until they tapered into the sea — stood the famous temple 
Aruna, in which the glory of the heavens, and the master- 
ship of man over the kingdoms of life below him, were 
revealed to the studious mind. This temple was built of 
solid stone that gleamed and glowed like a great pearl, as 
the sun arose over its turrets, or sank to rest amid the 
waters of the sea. It had been built by intelligent master 
workmen, each of which had faithfully performed his part 
in its erection, from the hewers in the mountain quarry 
who brought forth the shining stone, to the master mason 
who superintended the whole, who in this instance was 
the high Priest himself. A temple of those days was built 
upon scientific rules in reference to geometrical lines and 
astronomical relations, and in itself stood as an unsealed 
book of information and study to the minds who cared to 
study its parts and whole. Each workman was himself a 



52 TUTELAKY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIEITS. 

student of the universe, and in his part of the labor made 
special study of its relationship to the whole, that when 
his task was done he might be fitted to enter a higher 
class and pursue a more intricate branch of research. 

Within the walls of this temple were various halls, each 
finished for and adapted to its use, in which the sciences 
or the philosophies of life might be studied and investi- 
gated and while there were numerous servants and teach- 
ers engaged in the instruction of the people, Iberna, the 
High Priest, was the guardian and principal over all. 

We have related in preceding pages that in the early 
history of humanity certain planetary spirits descended to 
earth under the care of the Tutelary Gods who control 
this planet — and became embodied as earthly human be- 
ings, the High Priest Iberna was one of these. Born of 
humble but intelligent mortal parents he at a very early 
age manifested signs of great intelligence and power, and 
as he advanced in "years he gained a magnetic sway over 
the people — exhibiting also such evidences of superior 
culture, intellect and wisdom — that he by acclaim became 
the acknowledged head and teacher in that dominion. 

The habits of the people were those of modesty and 
simplicity, their garments consisted of robes flowing in 
graceful curves and folds from the shoulders, girdled at 
the waist by belts of finely wrought material. The females 
and males dressed mostly alike, though the former as- 
sumed a sort of mantle or cape which they wore over the 
shoulders, and their sandals were of a different pattern 
and texture than those of the men. The fare of the peo- 
ple was frugal and simple consisting of fruits and nuts 
also of bread from a certain kind of ground corn that was 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 53 

very sweet and nutricious. They ate no meat, and there 
was no sign of animal life whatever, in the city of Humen- 
ia, although in the mountain districts, and in certain for- 
est places of Atlantis forms of animal life did exist. 

The people of Humenia as a rule were gentle, law-abid- 
ing, progressive citizens — they lived in refinement, and 
they dressed with neatness and care. They were taught 
that Spirit and body equally required culture — that the 
body was the temple of the Spirit, and that to keep the 
body pure and clean and tastefully dressed was to pay 
proper respect to the spirit. 

Their religion was one of service to mankind, and the 
living of a pure life as a preparation for the beyond. 
They believed in immortality, and that those who died 
ascended to beautiful gardens that hung in space, where 
they assumed charge over their people below them, and in 
which they fed the flowers and fruitage from the magnetic 
emanations of their own lives, thus keeping them in 
perennial bloom, while for their own nutriment they ab- 
sorbed and inhaled the aroma of fruits and flowers and 
were refreshed. They also believed that the dead at once 
begin to grow into a state of youth and beauty, from 
which they would never depart. They paid tribute to 
the sun, as the creative force of life in Nature's works 
and also as the type of the highest Soul principle of 
which they could conceive. They were not idolaters — but 
they held reverence for all that was true and good in uni- 
versal life. 



54 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 



IX. 

The people of these olden times, did not die 3 7 oung, 
there were no immature births. Living a natural Life, 
they remained on earth the full length of Nature's term, 
each generation growing wiser than the last. In the 
Temple, Iberna and his associate teachers frequently re- 
ceived instructions and revelations from the higher invis- 
ible realms, which in turn was imparted to their charges 
according to their needs. 

The modes of locomotion or transportation in those 
days were by mechanically worked carriages and air ships, 
and by vessels upon the sea. The electrical and magnetic 
forces and currents of the atmosphere and of human 
nature, were understood and applied to practical ends. 

The secrets of Art and Science were known and util- 
ized. Silken fabrics were worn from the cocoon, and cot- 
ton and linen spun from the products of plant life, while 
beautiful dies of gorgeous or delicate hues were extracted 
from the products of field and wood according to the high- 
est skill. 

And thus Iberna ruled with gentle guidance and pol- 
ished intelligence until many, many years had numbered 
their flight above his head. But at length there had been 
a strange element introduced into his kingdom. Travel- 
lers from afar had come by ship into the bay, bringing 
with them strange ideas and customs. Where they came 
from they did not tell, their language was not of the 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 55 

Atlantians but they told of other seas, and continents that 
existed far, far beyond the Atlantian coast. Some of 
these people remained but a little time and then departed, 
others elected to remain at Homenia, and to cast their 
lots with the Atlantians by whom they were made wel- 
come. And the years went on, until it became apparent 
that the strange ideas of the new settlers were having an 
unpleasant effect upon the Atlantians. Iberna called his 
people and admonished them to prepare for the coming of 
a great catastrophe, for it had been revealed to them that 
the mountains were soon to belch forth their fire upon the 
Continent, and that the waters of the sea were to sweep 
in, tearing down the safeguards of the bay, and surcharg- 
ing the land with flood. At first his people listened with 
dismay, but ere long they forgot his harangues, for the 
foreign element that had mingled its life with theirs, 
scoffed at it. Again he warned and extorted, bidding 
them to prepare to leave their homes, to build them ships 
by which they might escape the fury of the storm. But 
the mountains reared their heads in silent majesty above 
them, the sea slept serenely at their feet. They could not 
believe that danger threatened, and they disobeyed the 
command of the master, who would not desert them. 
And thus they lived until the hour of doom. It was mid- 
night when the storm arose. The wind howling in fury, 
the waters of the bay leaping up like mad things as in 
search of prey — the mountains flashing fire, as if the 
heavens were rent in twain — this was what met the terri- 
fied senses of the people who fled from their dwellings, 
which rocked around and beneath them. The earth 
trembled, they knew not where to flee. Hope and succor 



56 TlTTELAKY GOBS AND ANCIENT SPIKITS. 

and rescue denied them on every hand. Suddenly in the 
glare of the lightning they beheld the form of Iberna 
arrayed in spotless white standing above them upon the 
dome of the temple, his hands raised in prayer, his face 
shining with the light that never was on land or sea — and 
above the fury of the storm his voice in supplication and 
blessing was borne to their affrighted ears. 

But even as the vision came it vanished, for intense 
darkness covered the earth, in which no man could see 
the face of another and only the moaning winds sang a 
requiem to the doomed and lost. Then, a discharge as of 
ten thousand batteries of artillery, a shaking of the foun- 
dations of the earth, the belching forth of mountains of 
fire and smoke, the washings of a mighty tidal wave — 
the mingling of human shrieks with Nature's cannonade. 
Then silence and oblivion, for a continent and a Nation 
had been destroyed. But — no, all vestige of a World and 
of a people had not disappeared at once, for he, the 
High Priest, was still alive, just as the darkness settled 
over him, Iberna descended from his station into the 
basement of the Temple, and when the ruin came he was 
still unhurt, although surrounded by falling boulders and 
columns that hemmed him in. He felt the earth shaking 
under him, but knowing that his time had nearly come, 
he had no wish to escape, even if it were possible for him 
to do so. He only grieved for his people that none should 
be left to tell the tale of the last days of their Nation, 
although years before when the strangers had come to 
them, who had again departed, a few of the young men of 
Atlantis, had elected to go with them, and it was surmised 
that they had found a home, somewhere on the planet 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIEKT SPIRITS. 57 

where they might engraft their customs upon and give 
their legends to another race. 

By and bye the tempest subsided, the waters lost their 
fury, the lava burned in sullen blackness unto death. 
Days passed and Iberna was still alive, and now he man- 
aged to creep from his dungeon and to look abroad upon 
the sullen restless sea that swept to the very base of the 
Temple on either side revealing no trace of garden or 
home, only in the distance a solitary mountain peak. 
The Temple had been built upon a high eminence in the 
centre of, but in the back of the crescent shaped city, and 
thus it was that while all else had been submerged the 
basement of the structure was just above the face of the 
sea. But desolation, desolation reigned on every hand. 
Iberna gathering his robes around him, stood forth and in 
tones of lamentation mourned for the people who had 
turned the deaf ear at last to his counsels and who were 
now no more. His voice betrayed to the listening wind the 
sorrow of his heart, but only desolation stared and mocked 
at him and drawing his robe over his face, he turned again 
to the silence of the temple ruins. Thus passed hours in 
which the Ancient communed in silence with the plane- 
tary spirits of the air — and again he stepped forth. His 
face shone as the sun at midday when the atmosphere is 
clear. 

The storm had again arisen, and the waters lashed 
the ruins with tempestuous force. He was alone, alone 
with the grandeur and the fury of an awful desolation but 
he quailed not. Stretching forth his hand he cried out 
in exultant tones, as the waters rushed in upon him, 
sweeping on in a restless flood, submerging all things in 



58 TUTELAEY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

their path, and bearing the form of the old Patriarch 
down, down to a watery fathomless grave. 

To the clairvoyant eye of earth that beholds him, the 
Spirit appears as the sage and teacher, of massive form 
and benevolent feature as he did to the Atlantians in 
ancient days. Thus does he also appear to many of the 
Spirits of the spheres who know of his work, but to cer- 
tain exalted intelligences, he appears as a brilliant sun- 
lighted Being whose rays stream forth in glory on every 
side. 

He has not always occupied the high position that is 
his, through the centuries he has been climbing from 
sphere to sphere. Iberna in conjunction with his female 
counterpart, and with a train of kindred planetary Spir- 
its, has charge over certain portions and missions of earth. 
His work is with sensitives who are fitted to be co-work- 
ers with ascended Spirit Intelligences in good works. A 
large part of^his missionas to oversee and direct the work 
of his pupils in uplifting, training, and educating earth 
bound spirits, also those who are in the second sphere. 
Many sensitives on earth are observed by departed beings 
— with these. Iberna and his co-workers labor, to free 
them from thraldom, and to bless both the obsesed and 
the obsesing ones. 

He and his army of intelligent spirits of different 
spheres including mortals — also are busy in bearing mag- 
netic healing forces to the sick of body and mind, and 
they are busy in stimulating the forces of many sensitives, 
whose psychical powers are unfolded under their care. 

The Ancient herein mentioned was not the only high 
Priest of the Continent Atlantis — there were many such 



TUTELARY GODS AtfD AXCIENT SPIRITS. 59 

throughout the land, but he was the presiding genius of 
the City of Humenia and its surrounding districts, and 
we have chosen him as a type of his class, that our read- 
ers may learn something of their powers. 

Iberna wields an influence upon the Spirit Planet be- 
longing to Earth, and over the seven surrounding spheres. 
He and his coadjutors are in communion with still farther 
advanced spirits, and they in turn are related to the 
Tutelary Gods. 

Such an Intelligence as this Ancient Sage, does not 
need a special dwelling place or structure — the universe 
is his home and the elements of the air his servants, 
though he has temples and dwellings of beautiful design, 
and of grand proportions at his command, in whatsoever 
region he cares to move. 



X. 

Such Ancients as Iberna, Cabul, and others that we 
have mentioned with many other intelligences, who 
have passed ages in the Spiritual worlds, are fitted to pre- 
side over continent and Nations. Yea over spheres or 
Zones of immense breadth and extent. They are also able 
to travel from planet to planet of your Solar system and 
to communicate with the human spirits of advanced wis- 
dom and power who dwell upon the spirit worlds of each. 

In the seventh world of spirit that surrounds the planet 
earth, is the magnificent temple mentioned in the opening 
pages of this writing, as the instantaneous work of Cabul, 
the Ancient Sage and wonder worker. Within the cen- 



60 TUTELAKY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIKITS. 

tral court of this Temple is a glorious shrine erected to 
Truth, a shrine that gleams with the splendor of the un- 
dimmed sunlight, and which sparkles with the beauty of 
many gems. At this shrine the wise men and women of 
the seventh sphere, who are in communion with the celes- 
tial beings of worlds beyond them, receive the revelations 
that such beings make to them. In a semi — or crescent 
shaped circle the psychics stand. The apartment is ex- 
actly in the centre of a court which in turn is in the exact 
centre of the Temple. The shrine or Altar that is formed 
like a brilliant Sun is in the exact centre of the apart- 
ment. The psychics stand around it in line forming a 
crescent. The master or ancient is in the centre. His 
Oracles and Sybils come next in order — on either side ac- 
cording to their Antiquity. The apartment is brilliantly 
lighted — not by external light, but from the luminosity 
that pervades and infills all things, and all beings upon 
this Zone, but the Sun shaped Altar is more brilliant 
than all else. The members of the seance stand in 
silence, for the vibrations of each one that in the spirit 
countries are audible to the quickened ear, make no 
sound. Silence for a period into which each soul enters, 
and from which comes a grand uplifting power. Then 
comes a sound as of many voices, in sweetest harmonies 
of song, which in turn dies into silence. Then comes a 
radiant light more beautiful than pen or tongue can de- 
pict, and standing in the centre of that wonderful light, 
a most impressive personage is seen. It may be the form 
and face of a male, or perhaps of a female. Either are 
likely to appear — and sometimes two at once are seen. 
These are beings from upper worlds, perhaps the tenth or 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 61 

twelfth in space. Possibly it is a planetary being who is 
seen — a spirit resident of Mars or Jupiter. Whoever it 
is, it is an exalted character. The visitant is welcomed. 
Presently, beautiful colored lights — like stars are seen 
to pass from his brain into the atmosphere. The chief 
of the seance knows that these lights are words, that they 
compose the language of the visitor. 

He interprets them into a message of truth and wisdom. 
Presently the lights increase in rapidity producing musical 
sound in the atmosphere. One after another of the mem- 
bers of the seance are affected by it — they fall into a 
trance. Yet they are conscious of the surroundings. 
While in this state the upper region is open to them, and 
visions of the spheres pass before the quickened psychic 
sight. The chief of the seance does not become entranced. 
But while his attendants are in this condition, he makes 
passes over one and another of them, and as he does so 
the scene which that particular one is witnessing is pic- 
tured in beautiful colors on the air. Which in turn is 
indellibly traced or photographed still in colors, by the 
light of the sunlike Altar, upon one of a series of satin 
like sheets — though almost transparent in their snowy 
purity, that are let down from above between the sun 
altar and the air picture, as described. 

Each vision which is being seen by an entranced seer, 
and which is thus imprinted, upon the air and transferred 
to the snowy sheet, represents some wonderful portion of 
the upper spheres that really exists, it is an illustration 
of real life beyond. It also symbolizes some grand truth, 
or conveys some lofty lesson, and it is the business of the 
chief of the seance, to show these pictures to the pupils 



62 TUTELAKY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIKITS. 

in the temple, and to the entire people of his district if 
they choose to come, and explain each detail to them, 
that they may not he ignorant, of what they can aspire 
and unfold to, and of what they need to know of human 
possibility and development. Each sheet which is of 
large dimensions, as it receives the imprint of the picture, 
is again rolled up and it again disappears from view, 
rising into the air as if by magic, but really borne up to a 
resting place near the dome of the Temple, there to re- 
main until needed in his public work by the teacher. 

As the sheet has appeared at the will of the Ancient, 
so does it disappear, to be recalled again by the same pro- 
cess of thought, when it is to be revealed to the schools. 

All the while that the mystics are entranced, the glori- 
ous visitor from beyond is visible. He stands in mid air, 
the light streaming from his brow, the master of the 
seance who is controlling affairs, and under whose influ- 
ence the chief of seance acts. It would be useless for the 
light, the air, and the will of the Ancient to attempt to 
photograph this visitor from another world — success would 
not result, for although this mental photography has gained 
wonderful powers in the seventh world, yet, it is not there 
sufficiently perfected to photograph a supernal presence, 
or a planetary spirit, something of an impression would be 
transferred to the sheet it is true, but the result would 
show simply a sunlight disk or light upon the snowy sur- 
face — a light in all the brilliancy of natural coloring and 
beauty but not as a human form. 

Such scenes as this described frequently occur. When 
the mystics have each performed their work they awaken 
from the trance and one by one glide out of the sanctuary. 



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The Ancient is alone some of the mystics who were with 
him, may or may not have been beings of like antiquity 
with himself, but he was chief in point of wisdom, power 
and knowledge. He is alone with the celestial presence 
who is his guide. The Ancient draws near unto the altar, 
he becomes swallowed by the light of his visitant, is ab- 
sorbed by the glorious intelligence, and is borne by that 
power from the Temple to the upper regions, where for a 
period he enters into direct communion with those who 
are far above himself. When he returns to his work, in 
the world that has been assigned to him as his particular 
field of labor, he is refreshed and strengthened and he 
goes forth among his pupils, as one who is glorified with 
an internal light and power such as no tongue can describe. 
There are other seances also held in the temple, each of 
which has its particular manifestations of psychical power 
and wisdom. At many of these one of the female Oracles 
or Psychics who have been engaged in such occult work, 
for centuries in one world after another is acted upon by 
the higher forces and beings of superior states, and 
through these avenues revelations of planetary life are 
made. The people of earth who may — because of their 
own psychic unfoldment and intuition — sense the truth 
of these statements and be ready to accept them, may be 
inclined to inquire why we do not describe some of the 
scenes which these exalted seers behold in their hours of 
entrancement on high, or why we do not transcribe some 
of the messages, or instructions that the oracle conveys 
to her hearers who are to profit by them. We would 
gladly perform this task if we could, for it would be a 
labor of Love. But it is impossible — there are no words 



64 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. . 

in the language of earth, no conceptions in the mortal 
mind of such scenes, and realities as exist in the celestial 
heavens, and should we attempt to portray them, not one 
person on the mundane plane could possibly comprehend. 
But the people of the seventh Zone have been prepared 
for these revelations, their growth, progress, experience 
and education, have fitted them to conceive of and under- 
stand these lines of life and study, that open to them as 
they are prepared for them, although there are many 
things in the higher realms that they cannot comprehend 
until they reach them, and these are hidden from them 
even as the doings of Angels in the seventh Zone are un- 
known to earth. Every human being in the Seventh — as 
well as in preceding Zones is expected to learn — all are 
pupils and seekers after knowledge. 

There are no infants — as the term is known on earth — 
in that world, because these Zones are peopled from the 
spheres preceding them, but there are many who are but 
as children in point of wisdom and knowledge — even 
though all are profoundly learned according to the stand- 
ards of earth — children compared to their wise teachers 
and guides who are happy in giving them training and 
instruction as the years roll on. 



XI. 

The growth and progress of a Soul in the Spirit realms 
is a Glorious march onward, from age to age and world to 
world. 

What though a spirit entity may elect to remain upon 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. G5 

any one Zone — whether it be the sixth or seventh for one 
or ten thousand years, Eternity is before him and he 
knows that he will have no less time in which to travel 
on from Zone to Zone than he has in the present or ever 
has had in the remote past. This is the glory of human 
Life, that it cannot be quenched and though ten thou- 
sand times ten thousand ages roll, the soul entity lives in 
ever nobler power to do its allotted work. 

Stars shine in the firmament of heaven. Pun}' man on 
earth gazing upon them with scrutinizing eye, wondering 
of their mystery, and the secrets they contain, yet a lit- 
tle while back, such a little while, as compared with the 
measureless years of universal life, man on earth consid- 
ered the stars, only as points of light set to brighten his 
pathway through the darkness of night, as so many lamps, 
lighted in the Heavens by the hand of the Infinite, to give 
him something by which he might see to go his way, be- 
lieving that earth was the only inhabitable world, of all 
the universe, and that he was the only being whom God 
could elect to save. But the stars glowed on. The won- 
drous worlds of light moved on, never knew nor cared that 
earthly man, believed them only candle dips to light him 
on his way. 

Yet these are worlds, majestic worlds. Many of them 
are planets peopled with human beings of intelligence 
and power. Others are worlds that have not yet devel- 
oped the condition for sustaining human life upon their 
bosom, but which will in time arrive at the unfolded 
state in which they can sustain a manhood that will in it- 
self be as beautiful as the stars. Other worlds that swing 
in space have had their day as inhabitable planets, and 



66 TUTELAEY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

are now passing through a period of change, throwing off 
eminations of sublimated matter, and absorbing from the 
atmosphere, and from the human Tutelaries who attend 
them electrical and magnetic elements that will vitalize 
them anew and cause them to become spiritual planets, 
upon which human spirits who are not of the physical uni- 
verse, but who have entered the spiritual realm itself, 
may find a habitation where they can utilize their ener- 
gies and powers in constructing new forms and objects of 
life for the glory of man. 

Others of the great galaxy of souls, who are studying 
the laws of Nature, and who come in vital contact with 
world builders and planetary guides, have given expression 
to the theme of world creation. Yet in these pages which 
deal with Tutelary Gods and Ancient Spirits it seems as if 
the subject should be touched upon. 

We have said that while each spirit Zone, is in turn 
partly made up from the finer emanations of the world 
preceding it, combined with the magnetic elements of 
those who dwell upon that preceding Zone, and partly 
from the will and electrical forces of planetary spirits, 
that each Zone is when completed and started in space as 
an inhabitable Spirit world, presided over and governed 
by two Tutelary Beings or Gods, one male and one female, 
who are forever united as One. Also that the entire num- 
ber of Spirit Spheres belonging to the Earth planet, and 
the planet Earth itself, also of the spirit planet of which 
more will be written later on, are in turn presided over by 
the superior Tutelary Gods, male and female, who rule 
their destinies and determine their career. 

Now it is well for mortals to know, that these superior 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. G7 

Gods are not given any name by those who come in con- 
tact with them, and who can receive communication from 
these higher powers — although the latter are never seen 
by any Intelligence beneath them in points of intelligence 
and skill, that is, they are never seen as humans, though 
they may be psychically beheld as great suns or disks of 
radiant light. 

Yet, these superior Tutelary Gods are human beings 
and as such, display the skill, energy, persistency, intelli- 
gence and power of humanity. 

The superior Gods are nameless to all below them, hence 
we cannot record them by any title or cognomen. The 
Gods who govern each spirit Zone however are known by 
names not only to their co-workers but to their subordi- 
nates and to the world. 

We do not call the Tutelary Beings Supreme, who have 
charge over the twenty -four Zones of the Spiritual system 
of words, the spirit planet and the planet earth combined, 
and over the Tutelary spirits who respectively govern each 
Zone, and the entire train of workers and servants of these 
Zones, because above and beyond these are other Tutelary 
Beings who are still more powerful, and above in point of 
power, design, skill, and intelligence — One Infinite, Om- 
nipotent, Omnipresent, and Chief Power Mind — of all 
planets and all systems of worlds, whose body is the Uni- 
verse whose soul force is concentrated as the Eternal 
Light in the centre of this stupendous frame. Therefore 
the Unknown and Unknowable of all Tutelary and plane- 
tary existences can alone be called the Supreme Being. 

Touching upon and magnetically blending with the out- 
ermost circle or zone of spiritual life that surrounds the 



68 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

planet earth, is the outermost circle or spirit Zone of 
another planet that moves in space — that beautiful physi- 
cal orb that is nearest to earth, and concerning which 
mortals dream and speculate. And so with other planets 
in the Universe that are inhabited by human entities. 

Each has its various spirit Zones or spheres, one reach- 
ing out from another, further and further in the fields of 
space and the outermost of each blending with the outer- 
most belt of the planet nearest to it in the heavens. So 
also has each physical planet a spiritual counterpart or 
spirit planet, and these spirit planets are all peopled with 
workers who labor for others in the great field of action. 

The spirits who dwell upon the lower planes of spirit 
life cannot visit other planets nor even the spirit Zones of 
other planets, but human entities from the higher realms 
can communicate with planetary Spirits, and can even 
visit other planets and their Zones at will. 

Tutelary Gods above the third sphere of spirit life, also 
the Ancient spirits who dwell above the fifth sphere can 
visit and mingle with the inhabitants of other planets — 
Spiritual and physical, some of them can control media 
upon the planet Mars and Venus and Jupiter, and so on, 
and communicate intelligence as to the planet Earth and 
its spiritual satelites. So it is true that certain intelli- 
gences from other planets can control specially endowed 
and developed media on this little earth and impart in- 
formation and wisdom — according to the fitness and the 
intelligence of their instruments to receive. 

In visiting the various planets, the Gods, and their co- 
workers or servants the advanced Ancients, can go at any 
time by a mere effort of will and desire, but there are 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 69 

other well informed and progressed spirits — who are of 
this modern age, who can under certain conditions visit 
one or another planet. 

The conditions are in part as follows: A company of 
studious men and women of scientific thought and habits 
desire — in the interest of study and of knowledge, to visit 
a certain planet. A guide in the guise of one of the 
Ancients, who has been over the route before is selected 
to lead the way, and one or two others of like character 
may be chosen also to attend the party. 

But the guides will have to accommodate their travel 
to the needs and the powers of the company, these per- 
sons cannot cleave the planetary air at will. They may 
do so as far as the environments of earth are concerned, 
but not in conjunction with the surrounding circles and 
atmosphere of the planet —Mars for instance which they 
wish to reach. There are electrical currents and mag- 
netic currents that are unfamiliar to them — these must 
be met on their journey through space. 

Perhaps they must avail themselves of a period when 
the planet visited is in a certain quarter, or in certain 
conjunction with the earth, or of an opportunity when 
the electrical forces and currents are of a certain degree. 
But at length just the right moment arrives, the com- 
pany sets out, each explorer well equipped lor his flight, 
and all happy in the thought that they are in reality to 
visit another world. 

There can be no accident to this party, although it 
may be delayed now and then in its trip, or buffeted 
about by contending atmospheric forces, or by electrical 
impulse that impedes progress but, as the journey is pur- 



70 TUTELAKY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

sued solely by the action of the will under the influence 
of the guides, the party eventually makes the goal in 
good condition, and in happy mood. 

We have known a party of such explorers, to reach 
their far oif destination in a few hours, and we have 
known others to spend two years upon the way, but we 
have no records of any such party losing any one of its 
members, or its self as a whole, coming to any unpleasant 
end. 

Spirit cannot be killed. Its elements even those form- 
ing its body and drapery are of such an elastic and resi st- 
ent nature that they cannot be crushed, nor changed by 
any volatile or subtle force, for they are themselves of a 
like subtle character, Spirit while constantly throwing off 
substance, in the form of magnetic aura, is as constantly 
absorbing new elements, and there is neither decay nor 
accident in the world of spirits. 

When the visiting party has pursued its object, and 
done its work — it returns to its own home, strengthened 
in power and broadened in knowledge. 



XII. 

While we have in the preceding pages mentioned the 
Spirit planet which is a counterpart of the physical Earth, 
and which is peopled by millions of intelligent and pro- 
gressive human beings — of the same grades of culture, 
refinement, growth and power as are the various denizens 
of the several spirit Zones from the fourth to the seventh 
inclusive — all of whom are either humanitarian, philan- 



TUTELARY GODS AND AXCIENT SPIRITS. 71 

thropic, and working beings, or being trained as such, we 
have said but little concerning it, and it is now important 
to speak more specifically of that world. 

We have said that each spirit Zone or belt has been 
created in the line of needs, by, and for human beings. 
The first or lower belt is made up from the effluvia and 
emanations of the darkest and crudest human beings who 
reside upon it, but this darkened sphere was not of such 
a character until about twelve thousand years ago, be- 
cause there were no human beings upon the earth who 
sent out such emanations as compose that plane. The 
earlier, Ancient human beings were less savage, more re- 
fined and spiritual, than are many of the higher classes of 
civilization at the present time, although many of the 
people of ancient Egypt, were untutored and humble folk. 

The second sphere is created for those who have arisen 
out of, and been purified from the elements of the first 
and so on in order as has been before related. 

But the Spirit planet which keeps march in space with 
its prototype Earth, was created soon after the latter phy- 
sical planet came into existence. 

Tutelary Gods and Planetary Spirits from older planets 
of your solar system, saw the necessity for a world to which 
the spirit entities of those human beings who were to find 
an abiding place upon the earth, not only on Ancient 
Atlantis, but previous to the advent of that mighty Con- 
tinent, might pass at their mortal decease. These Gods 
and Planetary beings had been instrumental in helping to 
fashion earth, and to set it spinning on its course. The 
Sun, sending off radiations of luminous substance pro- 
vided the nucleus for the planet Earth, but this had to be 



72 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

charged with electrical force, and reinforced by magnetic 
elements from conscious human intelligences and it was 
the work of the Gods and the Planetary beings — as agents 
of the one Almighty force and Central Light — to perform 
this task. Hence under their administration and labor 
the planet Earth was formed. After that physical Orb 
had rolled and plunged along its course for ages, it as- 
sumed an equilibrium that held it more quietly and regu- 
larly to its orbit, and the plunging ceased. It then began 
to generate forces and to create conditions that would in 
time provide the life sustaining properties and qualities 
for human beings. The planet also at about that time 
began to generate a finer, more etherial aura than it had 
previously done, the aura of its former period, being of a 
dark and dense character which settled around it like a 
cloud and which in reality was the foundation material 
for the creation of the first sphere or Zone of human Spir- 
its, which long ages afterwards was created or completed 
by the emanations of the crude creatures who have suc- 
cessively found upon it their first experience as decar- 
nated spirits. 

As earth continued to generate, and send forth a more 
sublimated physical aura and atmosphere, the Tutelary 
Gods and planetary spirits applied their forces to the re- 
fined elements, adding their own luminous, magnetic 
fluid to the same, until the nucleus of the Spirit Planet 
was formed. Breathing upon this, adding power and 
force to it, infusing it with their own magnetic life, bring- 
ing to it solar substance supplied by the Spiritual Sun — 
for there is a spiritual counterpart of your Solar Orb as 
well as to each planet of its system— these Celestial work- 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 73 

ers labored with the new Spirit Planet until it was com- 
plete in form and nature, and until it was fitted for the habi- 
tation of progressive, intelligent human — Spirit— entities. 

While it is lighted by the solar rays of the Spiritual 
Sun during certain portions of its existence — yet it is 
never left in the shadow of night nor is any portion of 
this spirit planet ever held in the embrace of cold or 
darkness, when the light of the sun is withdrawn from 
any part of that etherial Planet, that locality may be said 
to be passing: through the period corresponding to your 
night, but this continues for perhaps a very few hours. 
During that period those who wish may sink into a mag- 
netic slumber, which corresponds to mortal sleep but 
which is not needed for more than an hour or two at a 
time, because it is so vitally refreshing and uplifting, it 
speedily restores the exhausted energies, or imparts new 
magnetic elements to the weary frame. 

Those who usually require to enter such a slumberous 
condition are the adults who have parted with much of 
their own magnetic force in ministering to others, either 
on Earth or on the lower Planes of spirit life, and also 
young children. 

AVhile in this slumberous state, the individual is guarded 
and magnetized, by other beings who infuse into them 
new force and strength. 

But it is never dark in any part of the spirit planet, be- 
cause the planet itself is so thoroughly luminous that it 
does not depend upon Sun, Moon or Star for light, nor 
for that matter for warmth, as its atmosphere is equable 
and balmy, while at the same time of an invigorating 
character. 



74 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

Each object in existence there — tree, flour, mountain 
or sea, Temple, or dwellings and also every man, woman 
and child, and such few etherealized forms of animal life, 
that are upon the spirit Planet, also emit a peculiar light 
that illumes all the surrounding atmosphere — hence there 
can be no darkness there. 

The interior light is of an electrical quality softened by 
the emanations of refined magnetism generated by the 
human beings of that world. The flowers and other pro- 
ducts of Nature are principally — but not wholly — nour- 
ished and lighted by the magnetism, and the illumination 
imparted to them by their human care takers and gard- 
ners, all of whom are students of chemistry and of other 
scientific laws. 

When the light of the sun is withdrawn from any por- 
tion of the Spirit Planet, that locality assumes a soft reful- 
gent light which is beautiful and soothing, and yet as 
brilliant as is the -light of a summer day on Earth, an 
hour or two before the sun has reached its midday height. 
Sometimes but not often soft and fleecy clouds gather, 
and a gentle rain or mist descends which veils the light 
when all things assume a peculiar roseate hazy appearance, 
the rain injures no one, it only gives a new sensation of 
refreshment and cheer, and as soon as it ceases to descend, 
all things bear no trace of dispoiliation or storm. Many 
of the older or more experienced inhabitants have no 
need of sleep or of external food. They find rest and re- 
cuperation, in a change of thought and labor for the time 
being. Occasionally these may retire into solitude for an 
hour, withdrawing themselves from contact with all 
forces and people, entering into the great silence of the 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 75 

Soul, and they may or may not, according to their desire 
at such times, enter into communication with intelligent 
beings in the higher worlds. 

Fruits of various kinds and quality all replete with 
nutritive properties — grow in abundance in this spirit 
world, these supply the principle form of food for those 
who require such sustenance. 

Some spirits also make a drink of Nectar from fruit 
justices and the essence of flowers. The fruits have no 
seeds and no coarse fibre, their cuticle is thin and trans- 
lucent, the entire fruit is absorbed by the human system, 
its minute waste being thrown off in impalpable emanations 
from the spirit body, these emanations being taken up by 
the atmosphere again and transferred to the growing fruit 
or flowers as nutritive quality. Nature there as upon the 
Earth is economical and busy, a wise and nice utility 
marks all her works. 

AVe have said that many residents of the Spirit Planet 
neither eat nor sleep. Yet they are revitalized and nour- 
ished, partly by the elements of strength and nutrition 
which they know how to absorb from the atmosphere 
and partly from the magnetic force which they receive 
from guardian spirit entities of the older races of man- 
kind. 

The spirit planet was created and pronounced good, 
Planetary Spirits guarded it, until it was required for the 
habitation of human beings from the Earth. 

Ancients from old Atlantis and elsewhere ascended to 
it after their physical disease, upon it they made homes, 
created temples, founded gardens, laid out parks, estab- 
lished schools, and pursued a national sort of existence. 



76 TUTELARY GODS A^D AKCIE^T SPIRITS. 

Here they came in contact with planetary spirits and 
learned of them. 

In time these Ancients became busy again with earth, 
some of them returned voluntarily to it and became re- 
embodied, others did not. The earth in the course of 
ages became inhabited by new races, and the various 
Zones or belts surrounding it were formed as has been 
previously narrated. 

As the need for more belts or Zones increased, each 
was in turn created and inhabited, some of the beings 
who dwelt upon the Spirit planet, removed to the fifth, 
sixth and seventh Sphere. Others remained in their 
original home. These can pass at will to earth, and also 
to any portion of the Zones beneath the seventh. Many 
can travel to other planets, in company with planetary 
guides. 

The spirit planet is constantly gaining new accessions 
to its inhabitants from Earth. 

But, as we have said none but progressive humanitarian, 
working entities go there. Little children are often 
borne there after their mortal decease, to be trained as 
workers or messengers, but only such as the intelligent 
guides of that world, known to possess the elements and 
talents needed for such work. 

Other children who pass from earth, are taken to one 
or other Zone, from the second to the fourth, but none 
are found in the darker sphere. 



TUTELARY GODS AND AXCIEXT SPIRITS. 77 



XIII. 

Although there are many Ancients upon the spirit 
planet, some of whom have homes in various portions of 
the higher Zones, and others of whom make their abiding 
place upon that etherial planet, there are yet many spirit 
entities who have passed from earth in recent years, while 
new accessions to the human family in that world are con- 
stantly being made, to give room and place to the new 
arrivals who in turn are to become earnest, and zealous 
workers along humanitarian lines. Intelligences fre- 
quently leave that planet to take up a residence upon the 
fifth or some higher sphere according to their choice and 
attraction. Such of the Ancients who continue on the 
Spirit planet serve as seers, teachers and guides to advanc- 
ing souls of high intelligence who have lived as philan- 
thropic and patriotic workers on earth within the last half 
dozen centuries. They also labor in conjunction with 
Media and reformatory souls on earth who are striving to 
do a good work for their fellow men. 

While there are no little children upon the first and 
darkest plane of spirit life — all such wee people however 
humble and even degraded their earthly parentage not hav- 
ing generated dense and darkened elements to weigh them 
down — there are also no small children, upon and of the 
Zones higher than the fifth, because from that Zone on- 
ward, existence depends upon culture, intellectual growth, 
intelligent action, and power of achievement, and no one 



78 TUTELARY GODS AND. ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

can ascend to the higher realms, who has not advanced in 
the higher studies of life. But there are numerous chil- 
dren upon the spirit planet, little ones who are borne 
there at the hour of their physical decease, who have 
within them the elements of useful service so strongly 
marked that they can be trained to become messengers, 
guides or special helpers, and guards to human beings on 
earth — also as helpers and workers, among the dwellers 
on the lower plane. It is a mistake to suppose, that any 
one of your friends or relatives who cares for you, oh mor- 
tals, and whom you love, is at once — simply because he 
has passed to another world, — competent to become your 
guide and guard. Special fitness and special training is 
needed for such work, even as it is for the soldier, the 
teacher and the guide in earthly schools, to have special 
training and fitness for his calling on earth. 

True there are many spirit entities who love and desire 
to bless you — they sympathize with you in your joys and 
sorrows and they wish to help or advise you — now the in- 
fluence and counsel of these friends, may or may not be 
wise and judicious — even though it be well meant — and 
therefore it may prove to be helpful or the reverse, accord- 
ing to its kind. Ancient spirits understand this thor- 
oughly and they have much to do in the training of our 
children and attendants of mortals especially if the latter 
are sensitives or media who rely more or less upon the 
guidance of their unseen friends. When a child — from 
the earliest years upward passes from the mortal clay, it 
may be taken to the spirit planet, and at once placed in a 
nursery or kindergarten, or in some school fitted for its 
training, or be taken in charge by some gentle and loving 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 79 

woman, and in her home be surrounded by all that is 
beautiful and sweet where its tuition at once begins. Or, 
it may be borne by caretakers and guides to any one of 
the spheres — according to its needs from the second to 
th fifth Zone inclusive. 

For instance a child of earth may be born of such pro- 
genators that it is stamped with inherited moral disease, 
it needs the care of the magnetic physician and the tender 
nurse more than it requires mental stimulus. In the 
second sphere there may be relatives or friends of the 
child who have suifered and outgrown the lower plane and 
are earning their way to a home upon a higher Zone, by 
their desire to do good. Possibly such an one may take 
the little one into her pretty home, were it receives the 
care of the physician who attends such cases, and who 
comes to his— or her — work from a higher realm, or the 
child may be taken into one of the nursery gardens or 
sanitariums, that are established there, and receive the 
care and treatment that it needs, and under which it 
thrives and grows, and soon becomes fitted to be borne to 
the third Zone, where kindergartens and schools of train- 
ing are established for its service and where a beautiful 
home awaits its coming. That child on passing into the 
higher realm, will be taken in charge by a relative or 
friend who has also arisen to its plane, by becoming pre- 
pared for it. 

Here it may arrive at maturity, or it may ascend to the 
fourth Zone while yet a youthful being, that will depend 
upon circumstances and inherent qualities. 

Other children of a higher — inherited grade of intelli- 
gence and moral sensibility may pass to the third, or 



80 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

fourth Zone, in leaving the mortal. The children on the 
Spirit planet, correspond in grade of intelligence and 
moral consciousness to those of the fourth and fifth Zone, 
and they may travel on through the spheres from such 
grades as they become unfolded, if they are thus led and 
guided by matured wisdom souls. 

The homes of the second Zone, are simple neat and 
pretty — resembling cosy cottages of earth, with blooming 
gardens and fertile fields attached. The sanitariums and 
nursery gardens and health retreats, where music mag- 
netism and gentle love are the curative agencies employed. 
The homes and other structures of the third Zone, are 
more beautiful, and the gardens more expansive and artis- 
tic than the second, and so on. Caste and position in the 
spirit realms are determined by degrees of intelligence, 
wisdom, and humanitarian labors, nor can any one attain 
to beauty of form and feature, and to the lovely harmon- 
ies and attractive environments of the higher realms in 
which the spirit planet may properly be included, unless 
he is fitted to become a part of them. The Condition, 
position, and grades of the various realms of spirit life all 
prove that advanced wisdcm and intelligence have de- 
signed and created them, and while the highest of all 
power, Omnipotent and Omnipresent has outlined and 
conceived the work, the details and characteristics of it 
have been supplied under the guidance and influence of 
His tutelary Gods, while planetary beings and — so-called 
— Ancient Spirits, have figured largely in the work as a 
whole. 

The spirit planet being a counterpart — yet an etherial- 
ized one — of the physical earth, resembles the latter in 



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many respects, especially in its natural scenery, of moun- 
tains, oceans, rivers, lakes, continents, islands and other 
bodies of land. Also in its fruits and vegetation though 
there is no coarse animal or vegetable matter or substance 
upon that spiritual planet, all is sublimated and refined. 

The Temples, schools and colleges are fine edifices, 
some of them stately and grand beyond description and 
especially magnificent are the galleries of art, and the 
temples of music. 

Many of the beautiful groves there, are selected as 
places of assembly for the people, and many times have 
these spots in natures garden re-echoed to the lofty 
thought, and teaching of wise and grand spirits of the im- 
mortal world. Out of door life is far more prevalent 
there than indoor life, but each family, or each associative 
body — for there is communal as well as family life there 
— has its dwelling and its home, each of which is fitted up 
according to the taste and desire of its inmates. 

There are no churches on the spirit planet, and no 
special observance of Sunday, each day is considered a 
good and holy day, and indeed time is not set off in the 
same, ratio of periods there as it is on Earth. On the 
second Zone there are a few modest churches in which 
some of the inhabitants gather to worship God, for many 
of these have not as yet been able to give up the idea of a 
personal being in the form of a gigantic man upon a verit- 
able throne, around whom they may yet gather to sing 
His praises forevermore. But as they continue to persist 
in good works, and are prepared to ascend to a higher 
plane, they lose this idea of God and eternity in the larger 
light, and clearer understanding of the everlasting truth, 



82 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

In the first and darkest spirit world, there are many 
bigots, Catholics and others — who were so self opinionated 
creedal in their views that they would willingly have 
burned at the stake or tortured in the inquisition, all who 
might differ from them in religious idea. It may take 
years or even centuries for sucrT positive, dogmatic an I 
even cruel minds, to work out of their old conditions, and 
in the meanwhile they are as eager to proselyte and to help 
continue the authority of the church on earth as they ever 
were. Sometimes these beings do so much harm by their 
influence over mortals, that they are forcibly taken in 
charge by advanced intelligences and put under restraint 
until they can be taught, and led by their own awakening 
desire to learn. 

In the second sphere there are no such b'gots but there 
are many who still cherish a reverence for theological 
teaching and who delight to join with their friends on 
earth in attending, religious service, and in paying special 
tribute to the Sabbath. 

On the third Zone there are many who still observe 
Sabbath, Sunday, not for any special religious signifi- 
cance, that it should hold over any other day, but because 
they believe it is well — especially for morals to set apart 
one day in seven for a season of respite from manual 
work, and for the cultivation of the spiritual qualities, 
and in still higher realms many lovely souls have the same 
thought. 

XIV. 

There is method and forethought, design, Order and 
the wisest intelligence in the work and mission of the 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 83 

highly advanced Ancients. They who have lived in con- 
junction with forces, and elements in the air, and with 
the spheres for over twenty thousand years have the 
power of devination of foreordination to a wondrous ex- 
tent. They can look forward into the centuries and not 
only calculate what will take place upon the Earth, but 
they can use an influence to help bring it about. 

The Tutelary Gods who direct the planet Earth, and 
superintend its general development and career, do not 
attend to details in relation to the affairs of men or of 
Nations. 

Their agents who are appointed or elected, to attend 
to these matters, are the planetary Spirits, and the 
Ancients who work with them, and it is these powerful 
beings, who utilized their forces in helping on the pro- 
gress of humanity on Earth, and of helping to bring the 
world forward to a higher development and growth. 

The spirit entities who have a portion of this globe in 
charge — we will, for purposes of illustration, say Amer- 
ica, may determine that it is necessary for its best in- 
struction and development as a Nation, to have a leader 
born within its domain, who will be ahead of his times 
sufficiently to advance new thoughts, and high ideas to 
the people. One who will have the courage of his con- 
victions, and who will stand fast by the truth as it 
appears to him, and flinch not, and who will at all times 
advocate the higher principles, of justice and brotherly 
love, as pitted against the lower forces of oppression and 
greed. One who will, in the face of martyrdom, go 
cheerfully to his doom, knowing that in the very execu- 
tion of a sentence passed by tyranny or bigotry will 



84 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIEKT SPIRITS. 

spring up a public sentiment, that will make for grander 
liberty to man, and nobler justice, in the control of 
Nations. 

Feeling the necessity, of the advent of such a leader, 
the Ancients plan and prepare for it, exercising influence 
and correllating forces to in time bring it about. Per- 
haps their powers will be exerted, upon one generation 
after another, before the right conditions will be formu- 
lated, for the birth of an entity who can and will respond 
to the influence of the spirit, and unfold the qualities 
and principles necessary for the completeness of the 
needed personality. But the powers are set to work, and 
in time, though it be a hundred years — the conditions are 
wrought and the circumstances produced, under which 
the human being is brought to earth. This then is the 
result of preordination — or predelection — on the part of 
the master spirits of the upper air. The individual whom 
they have thus planned for and caused to be born on 
earth, has in a large measure had his life experience 
planned for him, his career marked out. But he will 
have a certain limit of free will also, for he can choose 
his path and also the weapons he may use and his methods 
of using them, as well as the schools of training, in which 
he may pursue his tasks. 

In the progress of the ages, many such are born on 
earth. In America George Washington was one of them. 
So also was John Brown, whose tragic fate stirred mil- 
lions of Souls into an antipathy to the slavery system. So 
was Abraham Lincoln, the man for the times, and for 
the safe guidance of a Nation. So have been many 
others more or less known to fame. All have been 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 85 

brought forward at a needed moment, and put into action 
under the influence of unknown guides, who had set their 
watch for them. 

Thus too is the rise, development, and even decline of 
Nations foreknown to, and more or less influenced by 
conscious human intelligences, who occupy the wisdom 
spheres. Nor does it mitter to them if the work or its 
ultimate results be delayed a century, it is all the same, 
for they know thut eventually the work will go on to 
success. 

While these high Intelligences do have a tender re- 
gard for individuals, who are gaining an experience on 
earth, yet they do not allow the whims or caprice of any 
one to stand in the light of their work. If one, two, or 
any number of human beings stand in the path of human 
progress, they are removed or thrown aside. The good 
of the greatest number is considered, the welfare and en- 
lightenment of the people is of more importance, than 
the comfort of the one or the few, and therefore the 
larger good is pursued, even if individuals are crucified 
in the march. 

From a superficial or even a personal point of view this 
may seem cruel, but from the higher standpoint that 
measures all things by the standard of human need, and 
progress, it is shown to be the grandest of all dealing 
with the affairs of life that make for the universal, rather 
than for the individual good. 

Let us try to grasp the idea of many exalted human 
beings who are in point of age as old as antiquity, and in 
point of wisdom as intelligent as Gods, who are exercis- 
ing their graad powers as teachers, and guides, to 



86 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

Nations, and guardians over the weighty matters that 
affect mankind. Let us try to comprehend, that in all 
the universe there can never be the loss of a single en- 
tity, and that of all who lived as individualized active 
human beings even in the remote past, still exist some- 
where as potent factors in the completion of a universe, 
and in the perfection of a chain of common brotherhood. 
Worlds upon worlds exist for such beings and some of 
them are so far advanced, in strength and will force that 
if a world were needed, all they would have to do would 
be to gather the nebulae of the starry atmosphere, breathe 
upon it and with their magnetic elements and fluid in- 
crease its bulk, density and power of expansion and fash- 
ion it into a living world. 

Planets breathe just as surely as do men, animals, and 
plants, and as they are sent out into the Universe to pur- 
sue their course, they develope an intelligence that is im- 
planted within them by the tutelary Gods, and the 
Ancients who are responsible for their birth and growth. 
Every planet has a physical and psychical nature, just as 
has a human being, and while the physical part is unfold- 
ing its powers and developing its properties, the psychical 
is doing likewise, and throwing off emanations of ether- 
ealized force that are utilized by the spirit entities in new 
worlds or in completing other works. 

Thousands and tens of thousands of years roll on, 
these mounting up into the hundreds of thousands, 
human entities from planets that have swung in space, 
long ages before earth had ever a conception in the womb 
of planetary creation, have lived and dealt with the forces 
of Nature, as easily as th^ skilled workman, here deals 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 87 

with the tools in his hands. Other human entities, who 
lived oi this planet ages ago, come into contact with 
those other planetary beings and are instructed by them. 
The ages rolJ on, men are born on earth, live an allotted 
time and disappear. They pass on into the great world 
of spirit. They are individualized human entities still. 
But it is not for long that they are known, by the names 
and titles by which they were known on earth. For a 
few centuries more or less — they may be, but these soon 
roll by, and as the human egos, are transported to higher 
spheres and conditions, the affairs that once on earth 
seemed so big and monentous to them, now dwindle into 
the past as of little value. 

Even the names by which they were known are laid 
aside, and may be forgotten. Who, that has been an 
advancing soul for five hundred or a thousand years cares 
to respond to, or bears the name of John Purse or of 
James King, or bear the title of Oolonel Brown, or of 
General Smart? Nay, these are things or links belong- 
ing simply to but one stage of existence, they were a part 
of the garments that the man wore, not of the man him- 
self, and as he outgrows not only the garments, but also 
the age and the fashion of it, and advances far beyond all 
that, that had aught of association or connection with it, 
it slips away from him, as naturally as the dust of the 
road, and the leaves of the trees, slip away from the soar- 
ing bird that cleaves the air in its upward flight towards 
the sky. But earth children cling to their old Names, 
habits and customs. They seem to think that they will 
lose their own identity and individual characteristics if 
they do not. Yet, as the spirit passes on from the third 



88 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

or fourth Zone of progression to the fifth and beyond, it 
views life in a broader clearer light, and realizes that the 
Universe is, after all, its glorious home. Thus do the 
old time habits and names drop away and the new life, 
like a garment of beauty, upon which is inscribed the 
name fitting and acquired that belongs to the higher state, 
fold the progressive spirit in its strength and light. 

Ancient spirits are only beginning to be understood 
and appreciated by a very few of earths — intuitive — peo- 
ple, although there are many psychics who are imposed 
upon by the forces who dwell upon the lower plane and 
who psycologize the sensitive, to see them as if they were 
high potentates, or Ancient masters of great skill, and 
craft — and for a time these deceivers, succeed in lead- 
ing astray their dupes — who believe they are guided by 
high wisdom spirits. But ere long the mask drops away 
from the pretender, his psychological power is weakened, 
and he is revealed-in all his trickery to be what he really 
is, an obsessing and earth bound being, who delights to 
mislead his fellow men. 



XV. 

In these pages we have spoken oi the birth of man 
upon the planet Earth, but there was a period in the re- 
mote past when man had not found a habitation and a 
name upon the globe. 

Long ages after the planet had been swung out into 
space, under the guidance and power of its Tutelary 
Gods and their co-workers the unfolding and the evolu- 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 80 

tionary processes of life went on within, and upon its 
bosom, ere it could be fitted for the habitation of human 
beings. Yet, during all these ages, there were intelli- 
gent human beings upon many of the other planets that 
rolled in space. These planets also had their spirit Zones 
and counterparts, that were peopled by spirit entities who 
were intelligent, powerful, and wise beyond the power 
of mind on earth to conceive. It seems important 
that we should dwell a little more closely upon these 
Tutelary beings, and planetary spirits, than we have 
done, although these writings are not dealing specially 
with the older planets of your solar system, or with phy- 
sical worlds still more aged and advanced, beyond the 
system that embraces earth. 

The tutelary Gods of the Universe, are human intelli- 
gences, who have advanced from planet to planet, and 
Sun system to Sun system, through innumerable epochs 
and eras of planetary life, and who in their progress and 
power, have become almost infinite but who are yet sub- 
ordinate and inferior to the Supreme Intelligence of all 
Life, as all living creatures are. That is, the high func- 
tionaries who, in pairs control the evolutions, growth 
and affairs in general of a planet — such as Earth, or Mars 
— and all its spirit Zones, and sattelites, are thus grad- 
uates of innumerable planets and systems; but the tute- 
lary beings who in pairs control and guide, only one 
Zone or belt of spirit life — which is also a world — are not 
thus exalted, for they are the graduates of one planet, 
and its twenty-four or more spirit Zones. Yet, the lat- 
ter would seem to be all powerful and grand to even the 



90 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

most learned and great of earth's people, could they come 
into intelligent contact with them. 

The human beings of other planets who lived and 
progressed ages before the Earth was born, naturally 
evinced an interest in the formation and growth of this 
new world. Its Tutelary Gods and sponsors being deeplp 
concerned in its growth, and having themselves planned 
for and helped to prepare conditions for the advent of 
human beings upon it, felt it desirable to bring to Earth 
a human power that through material channels could 
help to magnetize and infuse into it, a vital force that 
would partake of both the physical and the psychical as 
the product of human intelligence and will. At this 
time the law of reincarnation had not come into exist- 
ence for there was no need of it. Nor had the Soul 
germs — which as points of light, have been mentioned in 
an earlier part of this work — yet been introduced into 
matter upon the -planet Earth, for at that period the 
conditions of matter had not been prepared for such re- 
ception. 

Looking over their work in connection with the build- 
ing of a world. The Tutelary Gods pronounced it Good, 
but they felt the necessity of planting Human magnetism 
upon its breast. 

The design of the superior Tutelaries, had been to pre- 
pare the earth to evolve a conscious, sentient, yet intel- 
lectual life upon its breast, through one age after another, 
a type of life that should de^elope intelligence and mem- 
ory, as well as intellectual activity. Nor was this design 
at any time abandoned. 

Yet it seemed desirable to also produce upon the young 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 91 

planet a type of human life that would understand the 
laws of evolution and work in conjunction with the Tute- 
lary and planetary forces for the development of a high 
and noble type of mankind from the lower elements of 
the globe. 

Thus it came about that certain of the planetary spirits 
consented to take upon themselves the habiliments of mat- 
ter and to descend from their high state of vibratory ac- 
tion, into the lower realm of earth, in order to bear a part 
in its productions and in its development of the human 
family. Thus under lofty Spiritual guidance, companies 
of intelligent beings male and female did descend to earth 
— not all in one locality, but they distributed their mem- 
bers to several different parts of the globe. 

Each company was attended by a band of high and pow- 
erful beings, members of which constantly guarded each 
entity who had elected to become a denizen of earth. It 
will not be possible for us to describe how these beings 
materialized for themselves bodies, formed partly from 
the finer elements of earth, but principally from the spir- 
itual elements and substance supplied to them by their 
planetary guides. But this was done so that each came 
into possession of a body, strong, powerful, yet graceful 
and beautiful that wa3 adapted to their place and work. 
Nor can we describe how each formed his and her own 
associations and established a home in the wilderness, or 
amid the waste of waters. 

But all of this was accomplished. Each male chose for 
himself a female mate, or rather, each male and female 
who had been planetary counterparts naturally came to- 
gether and established their home. Under the influence, 



92 TUTELAKY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

magnetic emanations, electrical forces and will power of 
these materialized beings and of their planetary guides 
and helpers, the surroundings of their homes became 
changed, the waste of waters subsided, and it formed 
only lakes or running streams the banks of which — like 
that of the Nile — becoming verdant and full of fructile 
life. The land around them lost its noxious vapors, and 
became luxuriant, with blooming vines and shrubs as well 
as with fruited trees the products of which sufficed as 
food for the planetary wanderers who had assumed earthly 
garments and come to stay. 

And so, on the planet Earth that still swung in 
space as an undeveloped, half made up globe, there ap- 
peared spots of beauty, and of fructibility upon which 
human beings could live with ease and comfort. These 
garden spots were miles in length, and gave an area of 
great utility to the people who became gardeners and 
agriculturalists. -Homes were founded, the generative 
functions of life exercised, the family relations established 
schools and temples reared, and communal systems of 
human life commenced. If special creation can be said 
to be thus brought to earth, then may we truly assert 
that special creation was the cause and beginning of 
human entities upon the planet. 

Under this planetary law and life children were born 
and reared who in turn founded families, and taught 
their offspring of the higher lore. In the meanwhile the 
planet as a whole continued to evolve its various condi- 
tions and phases of existence, age by age passing in which 
it produced its successive types of development, until at 
last it came to the period, when from the animal the 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 93 

lower types of human life were evolved, for as the animal 
forms continued to yield up their life elements, and to 
pass from the stage of expression, these life elements 
gained sufficiency of vital force to remain in the atmos- 
phere as pigmies and elementals, and to be attracted to 
the higher forms of life that nature was evoluting and 
preparing for earth, as the very lowest types of humanity 
that could be developed from the earthly state. These 
elementals in turn entered the human atmosphere and 
form, and again became living creatures that at length 
passed on to a higher state, to be reborn as finer types of 
being, because they had evolved a consciousness and spir- 
itual vitality from becoming possessed by and of the Soul 
Germ that had been awaiting absorption and expansion. 
All this took ages to complete, but in the meanwhile, 
the families of the planetary residents were busy training, 
laboring with, and directing, their own kind, as well as 
with the lower forms of conscious mortal life that were 
coming to the front. Thus, was it that, primitive man, 
before the cave dweller and the bushman, evinced an in- 
telligence, refinement and power that linked him with 
the Gods, while Earth as a planet still labored, to bring 
about fitting conditions, for the birth place and the birth- 
right of man, who should truly be a child of the planet 
these earlier people being children of other worlds. Yet 
they too had, perhaps millions of years before been evolv- 
ed from the lower forms of life upon some other globe, 
even as had their followers on earth. 



94 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 



XVI. 



Thus ages rolled on and the planet Earth continued to 
pass through one period after another of struggle and 
evolution. The planetary spirits who had voluntarily 
taken up an abiding place through materialized forms, in 
one and another locality, and who, after the manner of 
physical law, had produced offspring and reared families, 
passed on to the higher life, not to enter on existence 
upon the spirit planet which was now in process of evolu- 
tion, but to go to their own spheres, in the universe where 
planetary spirits dwell, for they were of that class. As 
the earthly bodies of these spirits, had been materialized 
and held for service, by the power of electrical force, and 
of human will and intelligence, so had they become 
dematerialize , and their elements dissipated into the at- 
mosphere when their period of activity and usefulness had 
passed. The offspring of these beings had been trained 
to expect this result and educated into an understanding 
of the higher laws of psychic existence, hence they were 
prepared for any manifestation of spiritual power that 
might occur, and for any occult events which appeared. 

The spiritual entities who had for a century, peopled 
such portions of the globe, had specially been adapted 
and prepared by magnetic and psychic power for their 
use, did not cease their interest in this work when they 
withdrew from it, nor indeed could they do so, because 
they, as human beings of great love and tenderness had 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 05 

generated the earthly bodies of other immortal beings, 
who, as soul germs of purity and light, had been attached 
to them from the great Universe of Causation, and had 
become absorbed by these earthly bodies, generated by 
their planetary progenators, had thus become a part of 
mortality. Therefore, the parental, planetary entities 
had, a relationship to and a proprietorship in the human 
beings, who peopled the earth after them. The mortal 
forms of those early earth dwellers, were made up of 
both psychical and physical elements and substance, and 
thus the soul germs that vitalized them had specially fav- 
orable, conditions for their development into intellectual 
egos. The planetary progenators of these mortals, who 
had passed on to their reward, for faithful service in in- 
fusing into the atmosphere of Earth its first breath of 
human life and power, and its first vitalizing magnetism 
for higher growth, now took their place as guardian Spir- 
its and guides to the people of Earth, while also becom- 
ing high officers of trust in the planetary life. 

Thus the centuries rolled, and the people of earth con- 
tinued to increase and multiply, as mortal and partly as 
psychical entities — but as the planet continued to strug- 
gle, with the conditions of cold and darkness, of evolu- 
tion and of growth, it presented difficulties to the people 
in the matter of maintaining a footing upon its surface, 
for, through the generations, the mortal bodies that were 
born, became more and more of the physical, and less 
and less of the psychical although up to the period which 
we are about to mention, they still retained enough of the 
planetary and spiritual elements and characteristics of 



96 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

their ancestors to be entitled to be ealled the children of 
the Gods. 

All along these years the Earth had been bringing forth 
one after another of its physical forms of active life, 
Great Giants in animal form had tramped through the 
forest, or had crawled their slimy way through morass 
and mire. Floods and storms had spent their fury, in 
one portion and another of the globe, leaving horrible 
devastation in their path. At length came a period of 
greater cold and darkness over all the land. 

The gardens of the Gods where the planetary spirits 
had ruled and set up homes were submerged, and the 
descendants of that once powerful race, were swept off 
the face of the earth, but only to take up a happy and 
intelligent existence upon the spirit planet, that afforded 
finer and more perfect conditions for a beautiful home. 

Again the ages rolled on, the earth righted itself, and 
continue vl to produce or evolute one type after another of 
animal form, each succeeding type developing a higher 
grade of consciousness and activity until at length, evolv- 
ing from the series of preceding animal bodies came a 
form that had less of the brute and more of the human, 
for although its coat was of hair, and its limbs like unto 
animal in form, yet it could rear itself, upon its hind legs 
and assume an erect posture, while its face became more 
like the lineaments of a human mask. Time passed and 
the lower types of earthly humanity were born, living in 
caves and forest jungles, fighting with the beasts for food 
and raiment. Yet human beings although not sufficiently 
vitalized by spiritual potency and activity to assume im- 
mortal aspect when death claimed the earthly body. 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. !>? 

Then came a higher type of man, born as the product of 
the preceding age — a higher type in which the life prin- 
ciple of that earlier and rudimentary type was absorbed, 
and one which made possible the advent of the soul germ 
into a physical body or envelope. But yet the spirit 
entity had not started on its upward march. A succeed- 
ing, in which still a higher type of humanity must appear 
was necessary, and this also came. The soul germs vital- 
ized the bodies of the preceding race, were again cast 
forth into the atmosphere, but while they had not gained 
immortality as spirit entities, they had gained a 
certain potency and vitality that marked their progress. 
Now came in the law of re-embodiment, for in the suc- 
c 3eding age, each human child that was born on earth 
was simply a reincarnated being of the previous age. 
Later on, as before mentioned, reincarnation served as it 
still does — as a convenient manner of earth expression and 
of passing through mortal experience, for such soul germs 
who may have been deprived of the discipline or stimulus 
needed to stamp them as progressive immortal entities, 
and also for such adult and advanced human Egos who 
for some practical purpose of one kind or another, desire 
to take up another period of conscious existence as an em- 
bodied being upon the earth. 

While all along the ages, such elementals as have 
evolved out of the animal kingdom but not into the 
human, have the law of re-embodiment in another direc- 
tion to furnish them opportunity and means to enter the 
human state — although of course these only do so in the 
very lowest form, and they have to pass through succes- 
sive re-incarnations, before they become intelligent and 



98 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

progressive human entities. Nor can this be done until 
in the earlier stage of humanity, they absorb the soul 
germs which evolve intelligence and conscious power. 

Thus time went on, until the planetary conditions 
brought a new opportunity to the Tutelary Gods and 
planetary spirits who had the earth in charge, to again 
manifest their wondrous power in its behalf. The human 
beings now existing upon it were of a varied character 
and degree of intelligence, for climate, atmospheric con- 
ditions and various other forces and influences had all 
produced certain effects upon the human race, as it ap- 
peared in various parts of the globe. 

The cave dwellers, and the forest savage had been 
superseded by higher types of men, who, under the mag- 
netic influence of the peaceful and advanced dwellers of 
the spirit planet were evolving a clearer state of con- 
sciousness and of mentality. Portions of the earth which 
had for ages been submerged again reappeared, and in 
such localities, as had once been the gardens of the Gods 
and the birth place of their offspring, again rose above the 
rolling waves, new conditions for maintaining a comfort- 
able existence were found. Eaces of people of a genial, 
gentle, and beautiful character slowly appeared. People 
who loved to study the Heavens and to think out the 
mystery of the stars. People who were quickened in 
thought by the influence of the spirits who watched and 
guarded them, people who intuitively thought of the mys- 
teries of being, and the secrets of planetary bodies and 
their movements. 

Then came the opportunity for planetary spirits to 
again descend to Earth — not, this time to materialize, 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 99 

but to quicken the life germs of physicel parentage, and 
to assimilate with their magnetic forces, taking upon 
themselves birth, growth, and development as mortal chil- 
dren, but so early manifesting their great intelligence and 
power, as to be recognized by the community as superior 
beings, and to be elevated by common consent unto high 
places. Thus did such high beings as Iberna and Cabul 
and Diurnes take up their abode, and send forth their in- 
fluences, forces and wisdom in richest measure to the chil- 
dren of earth. 

Some of these Gods also found their soul Mates on earth 
— for the latter also elected to be born on earth and unions 
of great happiness and love were formed, from which 
were born children of power, of beauty and of intelli- 
gence, and it happened that the children of these Gods 
were all males, so that when they grew to manhood, they 
took to themselves wives from the daughters of men, by 
whom portions of the earth were peopled for they did not 
all remain in one locality, but in the course of time they 
scattered to other parts of the globe. 

And thus did the earth and its people, again become 
vitalized from the realms of planetary life, while the 
earlier beings who had been born from its breast, not only 
watched its progress from their spirit planet, but they 
also became helpers in the work of ministering unto its 
people, while they prepared the way for their coming to 
that life which awaited them on the higher planet which 
was to be their spirit abode. 



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XVII. 

During the darkest ages of physical life, and develop- 
ment on the planet Earth, only brute force existed as an 
expression of animated and conscious life. This brute 
force was of course the product of the grosser forms of 
animal life. 

To make the earth what it was intended to be — a birth 
place for humanity, evolved out of its own conditions and 
types of power and activity, the evolutionary process of 
unfolding one type — or one species — after another from 
the preceding stages of development, had to be established 
and encouraged. 

In order to facilitate this work and growth, and to as- 
sist the planet in its "mission, the earlier races of human 
entities had descended from the planetary spheres, and 
materialized upon this earth, that their human magnetism, 
might become a part of the atmosphere, even of the soil 
itself, and thus impregnated with the elements and germs 
of an advanced humanity, the planet would in the far off 
ages yet to come, be able of itself to produce advancing 
types of humanity, long after the planteray spirits and 
their descendants had passed far beyond. 

How interesting and ever instructive it is to a floricul- 
turist to watch and superintend, the development of a 
plant that is putting forth its inh Brent qualities of growth 
to an expression of beauty and bloom, and in experiment- 
ing with his plants, hybridizing them and producing new 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 101 

varieties of growth and blossom. The enthusiastic gardener 
finds a dleasure and an education that perhaps he could 
not grain in any other way. 

So with the builders of worlds, and the supervision of 
planets. In this wonderful work and mission of theirs 
they find an expansion of Soul power, and of knowledge 
as well as a satisfaction that is unequalled in any other 
school of life. For, they are not only expected to watch, 
and superintend the growth of their planet, per se, but 
also to look after the develop meat of its animate and con- 
scious creatures, and stimulate them by magnetism and 
influence to higher and still higher grades of mental 
growth and of physical culture and development. 

Therefore if it is gratifying and helpful to the mundane 
gardener to watch and train his growing plants, and to 
apply process or conditions to them to stimulate along 
new lines of plant life and of blooming power, how much 
more so is it to planet builders, and to the care takers of 
worlds to watch, train, guide and stimulate to new unfold 
ments and achievements the physical and spiritual beings 
who are in their charge, as well as the globe itself which 
they control. Far back in the remote ages of Earth's his- 
tory, ancient Egypt flourished as a land of peace and of 
prosperity to the humble folk who raised their corn and 
fruits, and who lived in simple accord with Nature who 
smiled upon them. Fifteen thousand years ago the coun- 
try of the Nile, was far more beautiful than it is in the 
nineteenth Century of the present era, and its inhabitants 
were an intelligent and contented race. Yet, fifteen 
thousand years is a modern age, compared with the 
epochs of time and of human existence which preceded 



102 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

it, epochs in which, man flourished as a highly endowed 
creature, who understood his relations to the psychical 
world, and wno looked forward to the time when he 
should pass on to the gardens of the Gods. 

In this later age the spirit spheres — or Zones had some 
of them been created and inhabited, and the Ancients 
were then busy in building or in preparing, still other 
worlds for their occupancy and use. For thousands of 
years human entities had labored, in the psychical world 
for the blessing of mortals and for thousands of years to 
come they would pursue their onward way in achieving 
good for man. 

In this ancient Egypt many learned men abode, some 
of whom were descendants of the race that had lived 
upon, and become engrafted with old Atlantis. For it 
will be remembered that in the days of that continent, 
some of the people had departed from it in company with 
some of the strangers who had come to it from parts 
unknown. These who had departed, had sailed to other 
continents of which there were several, and had united 
with the people there, producing a generation of off- 
spring, who in turn begat other generations, members of 
which scattered to various parts of the world, travelling 
by ships and planting their homes upon foreign soils. 
Of such as these were the ancestors of the ancient Egyp- 
tians who founded schools, and established a system of 
education and training in the arts and sciences, that has 
never been equalled in the history of modern civilization. 
It is true that the peasantry of that remote age, were 
very far from being highly educated and refined, but 
even these were kindly gentle folk, who had an inate re- 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 103 

finement, that made them courteous to one another, and 
a natural intelligence that made them very far from 
stupid people, while the dwellers in the cities and courts 
were learned and highly intellectual minds. 

Somewhere about this dispensation, the spiritual forces 
of higher worlds, conveyed to the denizens of Earth, 
throngh the agency of their Seers and oracles, some 
knowledge of Tutelary Gods and of planetary beings, and 
it was learned that each physical world and its spirit 
counterpart as well as its various spirit Zones or belts 
were presided over by a superior pair of Tutelary beings. 
Also that the Spirit planet, and each of the Spirit Zones, 
had its own Tutelary Deity, all of whom were under the 
dominion and in the service of the superior Gods who 
governed Earth and its Spheres. It was also revealed to 
these ancients that, over and beyond all worlds and sys- 
tems of worlds, One Supreme and Omnipotent Intelli- 
gence held sway. It became the custom of the people 
at large then to pray to — or ask — the spirit guides and 
the Planetary beings, who they believed to be present in 
the air though invisble to them, whether it were for at- 
mospheric conditions that would benefit the crops, or for 
personal and individual riches or position. After a 
while, it became the general habit to pray especially, to 
the God or tutelary being who seemed nearest to them, 
and as the One of whom they knew best presided over 
the first sphere of spirit life, their prayers went out to 
that entity for they believed him to be a human like 
themselves, and they could not understand the Supreme 
One whose body was the Universe and wh >se Soul is 
Light. As centuries passed, the people of earth degen 



104 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

erated, human passions and human greed, and. human 
love of power and conquest began to gain the ascen- 
dancy. Man warred, against man, and Nation against 
nation. Now were the supplications to the Gods turned 
into the special channel of petition for strength to slay, 
to conquer and to overcome the adversary. 

Up from the human family on earth, then went vol- 
umes of dense dark magnetism that entered into the 
composition of the first sphere and made it more like a 
physical world. The Tutelary of that sphere, in his 
sympathy with the interests and the affairs of earth, be- 
came inclined to heed the petitions of certain numbers of 
men, to the exclusion of others. Then came in the spirit 
of partisanship, and of favor. It seemed as if that 
special Tutelary had imbibed largely of the magnetic 
forces of the earth, and was becoming like unto mortals 
in sentiment and thought. 

His prejudices and opinions were developed like unto 
theirs, therefore He took sides — so to speak — and brought 
his force and influence to bear upon certain armies and 
people for their conquest and triumph. Thus through 
the manifestation of his power and preference there was 
born in the minds of the people a belief in his champion- 
ship and in his Divinity. 

Many of them let go their idea of superior Gods, or of 
a greater Supreme 0. M., and adopted the belief that 
this Tutelary Being who only had the ruling of the first 
sphere of spirit life, but who was powerful in interfer- 
ence with the affairs of men on Earth, was in reality an 
Omnipresent God, and that he commanded the entire 
universe. Through his chosen Media he communicated 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 105 

with mortals and as he had become influenced by the ele- 
ments of humanity on earth he displayed many character- 
istics of the passions or of the life of the times. 

There were those on earth who were so well developed 
as psychics that this Tutelary being could talk with them, 
and in their presence he performed many wonders. 

Xor did he care to make it known that he was only a 
subordinate of other higher Intelligences and therefore he 
claimed to be a high Potentate, and ruler over all the 
earth. 

From this condition of affairs there sprang up a race of 
beings who cultivated a belief in a passionate, vindictive 
and jealous God, with whom they believed it possible to 
communicate. From these people, descended in tradi- 
tion and legend, accounts of various events in which this 
sanguinary and selfish God largely figured, and in which 
he was declared to be the one, Supreme "I Am." From 
these traditions and legends, descended the conception of 
the Jehovah that in a later age was accepted as the God 
of the Jews. 

But the work of this degenerated Tutelary Spirit, did 
not continue through the ages as lie had believed it 
would. For he was under the control of higher Gods, 
who were watching his deeds and thoughts, and in time, 
when it was deemed that he and his agents had gone far 
enough, in stirring up the people of earth, to combat wit h 
each other. He was dethroned from liis position, and 
put in charge of high planetary spirits to be disciplined, 
and educated into new lines and thoughts. 



106 TUTELAKY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 



XVIII. 

But the truth, or the whole truth concerning this very- 
selfish and human Tutelary did not appear to the 
children of Earth. 

And they continued to worship him, as the author of 
all life and the arbiter of all fate, and to pray to him to 
send them good crops, and success in warfare or in any 
other mission. 

A successor was immediately appointed, for this 
dethroned Spirit, and after a while this second Tutelary, 
began to exercise a more benevolent influence upon earth 
and it's people. 

But the belief in a jealous and partisan God continued 
to be handed down from one generation to another, 
although there had now began to be, traditions and 
legends of two forces in the air, an evil as well as a good 
Being. This was brought about because early man felt 
that he must attribute the sorrow, and sickness and dis- 
cord, and famine that occurred among his kind to some 
arbitrary malignant power that sought his destruction, 
and as some of the oracles had given forth tidings of the 
fall and degradation of an Angel of light, meaning the tute- 
lary before mentioned who had been dethroned — who 
had been cast out from the pale of the high and good who 
had trusted him, it had been taken for granted that this 
was the evil one who hated mankind and whose power was 
sufficient to do them harm. 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 107 

And again the ^darkness of mental and of spiritual 
bondage descended to earth — holding races of men in its 
murky folds and the planet was only lighted here and 
there by a few wise and highly advanced Souls in 
each age of men but who were not really of the same 
character as were those who had been evolved out of the 
lower kingdoms and tribes of earth for they were Ancients 
who had ages before passed on to high estates, but who 
knowing the chill and darkness of earth had elected to 
return and be reincarnated in order to keep the torch of 
truth and wisdom burning among men. 

We are not transcribing for mortals, a consecutive his- 
tory of the earth, nor of the origin and developement of 
man upon it nor of the rise and fall of nations — such a 
stupendous work as that, would not be undertaken by 
decarnated spirits through mortal Media for at least a 
century hence — but we are giving bits of history and 
flashes of knowledge upon the origin of Life planetary and 
human in relation to the earth its spheres and its people, 
and these desultory descriptions may now deal with por- 
tions of the eartli and races of people, that existed twenty 
or more thousand years ago — or again with happenings of 
a more modern age since the times of Abraham and the 
prophets. 

Now then do we speak of floods and famines and pesti- 
lences and warfares, and all manner of evil tilings that fell 
upon earth and its people during thousands of years fol- 
lowing the era of Moses and the Pentateuch. Conditions 
and periods of calamity that swept hundreds and thou- 
sands of human beings from the face of the earth at one 
time — time and time again. People who were born in 



108 TUTELAKY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

ignorance and slavery, and who were filled with human 
passions and darkness, going out of mortal existence, by 
hundreds aye by thousands, began to fill the surrounding 
atmosphere of the earth with an aura and effluvia that 
was darkening and replete with atoms and elements of a 
purely material character. 

Thus did the first or lower Zone of spirit life, assume 
more and more the appearence and nature of an animal 
plane, and that thus did it gain to it accessions of spirits 
who in themselves were crude, ignorant and depraved. 

In all the years that have passed since that remarkable 
period to the present day, this lower sphere of spirits has 
received daily accessions to its people from the depraved, 
the vicious, and the brutally ignorant classes of earth's 
children, so too has it been constantly sending off, 
to the second sphere beings who have outgrown its condi- 
tions, and who have been uplifted to a higher state by the 
help and magnetism, and teaching of the missionary 
souls who have borne their light into the darkened places, 
and have sent an influence and power through the low and 
darksome places with a purifying breath and a cleansing 
force. 

Thus has the planet earth rolled on until now it is 
approaching an era when more of beauty will infill it's 
elements, and when a new psychical force will sweep over 
sea and shore,, until it reaches every home and inspires 
every heart. 

The Century is about to close. The twentieth century 
of the Christian dispensation is about to dawn. There 
will be many wonderful revelations made to earth by 
Ancient Spirits, during the next hundred years. The 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 109 

human family on your planet, during the next century 
will see the grandest of unfoldments in occult demonstra- 
tion and spiritual significance. 

Signs and wonders will be given by the forces who rule 
heaven and earth. The human mind will be prepared, to 
receive that which is to follow in the next era of thought 
and progress. 

But not in the twentieth century will the dawning of 
the new epoch come, for that will not appear until the 
year two thousand, from the date of the Christian era, 
has arrived. 

For a hundred years to come, time will be utilized by 
the Spirit powers who govern earth, in bringing about a 
condition of beauty and of peace, in which man will learn 
to sink his antagonisms and to cultivate his spiritual na- 
ture, allowing prejudice to die away, and candor to take 
its place. 

Early in the twentieth Century a leader will be born, 
who will at an early age of manhood, rise in the majesty 
of developed dignity and wisdom to point the way and to 
teach the people of that which is spiritual. This leader 
will be full of a spiritual influence, his magnetism will be 
such, that people will follow in his steps, and be uplifted 
by his power. He will be a teacher and a guide, point- 
ing the way to a higher civilization and a grander spiritu- 
ality. This man and messenger will be a reimbodiment 
of a glorious wisdom Soul, who for thousands of years 
has watched over the destinies of Nations, and the a flairs 
of man. His work in this last incarnation he will reach, 
will be to prepare the way for the dawn of the new era of 
light and of truth that is to come to earth witli the 



110 TUTELABY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

year two thousand, and his work will be well done. 

Earth hath not yet arrived at its highest state of im- 
foldment, ages are to pass in which the higher conscious- 
ness, and the grander spirituality are to keep on in dev- 
eloping a nobler manhood, and a more royal state of bea- 
titude, in which the ethereal emanations of the race will 
go out with fuller force and cleansing power, to sweep 
through the first Zone of spirit life and purify it of that 
which is crude and dense. 

Every thousand years completes a Cycle of develop- 
ment and of experience on earth. During a thousand 
years, the subtler forces that move humanity may be 
changed, that new conditions and affairs may arise in the 
history of men. 

When the year two thousand dawns, the world will be 
prepared to welcome the glorious coming of the truth 
whose light will sweep over land and sea with illumina- 
ting power. 

We have mentioned a leader who is to be born in the 
twentieth century, one who will bring victory to those 
who learn of him the true principles of human fraternity, 
and when his term of earthly labor is complete he will be 
fitted to take a place as a Tutelary guide to one of the 
higher Zones of the spiritual spheres. For in the sacrifice 
of position and power and grandeur in the higher 
realms, this ancient who has time and again, come to 
earth as a teacher and leader of men, acquires the power 
and right to become a Tutelary guide of a brilliant Zone. 

Nor will he be the only great man on earth during the 
next century, for what he will be to the people in a moral 
and reformatory sense, others will be in the line of Intel- 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. Ill 

lectual training and scientific lore. Science will so train 
her votaries that they will be able to perceive the bounda- 
ries of physics and of psychics and to trace the elements 
and conditions of matter into the realm of spirit, so as to 
demonstrate to every thinking mind the existence of psy- 
chical spheres that are real and active with potential force 
and power. 

In the twentieth century one great poet, one great 
master in music, one artist of immortal fame, one brilliant 
light in literature, one magnificent singer, one splendid 
Scientist will rise to fame. There will be many fine 
poets and musicians, and many learned minds in Science, 
Art, and Literature, but these will pale to nothingness, 
compared to the one brilliant Light, in each department 
that will arise. 



XIX. 

Every concious, intelligent entity, earns his or her own 
place and condition in the immortal world, for while the 
different worlds in their formation, have been superin- 
tended or built by superior beings, yet much of the 
material which entered into their composition is provided 
by those who are to inhabit them. The workman on 
earth who erects a dwelling, does so from the material 
furnished him by those for whom it is to serve. So the 
spirit workmen find much of their material in the same 
way. 

No human souls can ascend to the higher spheres, who 
have not become fitted for them. 



112 TUTELAEY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

We have told of the work of Tutelary Gods — which is 
to plan and execute in the building and the development 
of worlds, to supervise the evolutionary processes of life 
upon planets, and to direct the countless co-workers or 
subordinates who are their agents in conducting the 
affairs, of Spirit Zones or of Nations upon their physical 
world. 

A human entity must be far enough advanced in know- 
ledge, wisdom and power to be a guide and guardian of a 
sphere or Zone, in order to come into direct communica- 
tion with a superior Tutelary Being, who governs a phy- 
sical planet and its spirit worlds. The superior Tutela- 
ries themselves, are in correspondence and communication 
with one another, for although the planet earth is 
younger, and far less developed than is Jupiter or other 
planets of the solar system, yet the Tutelary who controls 
it is as wise and far advanced in knowledge and power as 
is any of the controlling guides of the other worlds. 

But there are still more advanced and powerful Tutela- 
ries than are these who respectively control but one 
planet, and its spirit Zones. For every Solar System has 
its controlling power and intelligence. For instance, 
A Solar System that has seven full formed planets, and in- 
numerable other stellar bodies, each planet and its sat- 
elites physical and spiritual being guided by one pair of 
Tutelary Beings — male and female Counterparts, has 
itself as a system. One Celestial Tutelary who is above 
all the rest, and whose wisdom and power are manifested 
in the intelligent guidance and supervision of the entire 
system of worlds. 

These various Celestial Tutelaries, are in correspon- 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 113 

dence with each other, but even the high Tutelary who 
governs one planet and all that belongs to it cannot see 
these celestial Beings although they can receive commu- 
nications from them. 

Thus are there grades upon grades of intelligent 
entities. That they are Divine in the higher state there 
can be no doubt. 

But the conception of what is done in even the most 
advanced mind of earth, falls very far short of the know- 
ledge of Divinity which the advanced souls in the higher 
realms possess. 

As we strive to convey an understanding of these grand 
truths to Earth's people, we are conscious of our limita- 
tions, and we realize how feeble our utterances must be, 
compared to the magnificent revalations of these occult 
laws and sciences that are made to advanced studious 
minds in the Heavenly lands. 

In our teachings of the various belts, or Zones of con- 
cious active. life that in spirit surround and attend Earth, 
we are frequently induced to use the word Sphere, yet 
do not consider it the proper term for our service, nor do 
we like to use it, for each of these Zones, is really a belt 
of atmospheric strata that is vitalized by living magne- 
tism, and impregnated with electrical fluids ; it is substan- 
tial and palpable to all the Spirit entities who reach it, 
and it is in reality a world within itself. 

The conception of sphere in relation to human entities 
and human existence is not as a locality or a world but as 
a condition. 

We know that every ego creates li is own sphere, whether 
it be one of light, purity and honor, or one of darkness, 



114 TUTELAKY GODS AtfD AtfCIEKT SPIKITS. 

impurity and dishonor. That the sphere created by an 
ego may be one of Art, Music, Literature or Mechanics. 
Thus in spirit we define a sphere as a condition, yet it is 
a convenient word in the definition of worlds, and we 
employ it in our mention of the several belts or Zones of 
spirit life as describing a circle or girdle of living sub- 
stance which in itself constitutes a habitable world. 

But whatever phraseology we construct, or whatever 
language we employ, that belongs only to the people of 
Earth, we are limited and handicapped, in methods and 
powers of description and of analogy, for the life and the 
labors of the Tutelaries, the planetaries, and of the An- 
cients, are such as cannot be adequately depicted by any 
system of transcription and illustration which Earth 
affords. Therefore, only a dim conception of these sub- 
jects can be awakened in your minds,^although we deem 
them important enough for this. 

Having assured our readers that what we teach them 
in these writings can only be but a shadow or dim outline 
of the Glory of the eternal realms, we now proceed to 
speak of the entire system of planets of all the heavens 
as one stupendous Whole. As far as we can learn of this, 
we understand that the entire universe, with its Grand 
systems of life and power, is the frame work or vehicle of 
expression — hence the Body — of the One Omnipotent and 
Omnipresent Intelligence, which is the Infinite and 
Supreme Life and Light. Of this omnipotent we are told 
no Intelligence has seen nor learned in fullness, for none 
but they who were like unto Him could behold or know 
His Being — none are thus Infinite and Omnipotent, and 
could even the most powerful of Tutelaries approach Him 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 115 

in grandeur and power — that entity would be swallowed 
up in, and become a part of the Infinite Light. As the 
Tutelary Gods from the lowest to the highest are in the 
Universe, and as none can see the entire Universe at one 
time, so none can behold the Supreme Omnipotence at 
any time though those who understand something of His 
Nature and Life, can behold Him in part at any hour. 

In the light of the everlasting truth, the common con- 
ception of Deity in the mind of man is as crude and 
feeble as is the glimmering of a candle dip to the glory 
and refulgence of the noontide sun. 

Yet the human mind is expansive, and the wonders of 
the Heavens are opening out to man, with greater splen- 
dor and power as ages roll. Nature works through the 
laws of correlation and of distribution whether these laws 
operate in the physcial Universe or in the psychical struc- 
ture of humanity. It is through the correlating of ele- 
ments, atoms and forces in the human entity that the 
wonderous magnetic substance is created and through the 
force and activity of electrical impulse and will that this 
magnetic aura, that is substance, is set in motion, and dis- 
tributed in such manner as enables it to assist in the com- 
position and the construction of worlds, or of other forms 
of objective life. 

Planets are but the materialized forms of creative will 
and intelligence, they are brought into objective form by 
the power of Mind, Star-dust and sublimateed matter 
might float in space through endless time streaming on- 
ward in waves and ribbons of impalpable dust or Light, 
but without the potency of world formation, did it not 
receive the energizing stimulus and the breath of life 



116 TUTELARY GODS AKD ANCIEHT SPIRITS. 

which the energetic forces of Intelligent design and skill 
infuse into it. 

The elements of soil, water and atmosphere produce 
upon the earth a certain form of plastic clay — it is the 
material provided by nature which can be moulded into 
form and beauty by intelligent skill, but unless the human 
entity who understands the possibility of that substance 
takes it in hand and moulds and fashions it according to 
his will and taste, it will never become a model of sta- 
tuary, or a useful utensil for the potters service but will 
remain as formless clay until the winds have dried and 
hardened it beyond all power of service to the artisan or 
the artist. 

So nature in her Solar and Stellar Laboratories provides 
and sends forth the material which in the hands of the 
intelligent artist and designer may be moulded into 
worlds, but if it is left to its own devices and instinctive 
motion, it will only stream out in lines of useless dust. 

As the potter adds to his clay just the right degree of 
heat or moisture, and infuses into it some foreign ele- 
ments as coloring matter, or other substance in order to 
bring to it just that tint of beauty or condition of dura- 
bility that he desires. 

So the intelligent world builders add to the solar and 
stellar nuclei whatever of foreign substance they desire in 
the nature of human elements and magnetism to bring it 
into the right condition for its formation into a planet, 
and for its ultimate utility and power. And thus, order, 
design, skill, intelligence and active power are the neces- 
sary adjuncts and agencies in the producing of planets 
from solar and stellar material, and no world can be created 



TUTELARY GODS AXD ANCIENT SPIRITS. 11? 

or brought into form, and into the potency of life unless 
it has been fashioned and breathed upon and received the 
life elements of human entities. 

Grand and glorious revelations are made to the An- 
cients by the Tutelary Guides who send communications 
to them concerning the building of planets, and it is 
from these Ancients who receive the revelations, that 
these fragments of knowledge now imparted to earth 
people, are gained, for the Ancients desire to bless the 
people of earth, with truth and Knowledge of Life. 



XX. 

We now return to the earth life of the Ancient people 
who dwelt upon the planet earth thousands of years ago. 
Those intelligent beings who like Iberna, Cabul, and 
others with their people who for many ages have dwelt in 
glorified realms, and who have imparted to the earth and 
its spirit spheres magnetic life and light from their own 
exalted souls. 

What we have learned of the earthly existance of these 
people has been gained from their own revelations, in 
part, and partly from the historic records of their times 
and events, which are preserved in the Archives of the 
Spirit world. 

For in the higher realms histories of all the races, times, 
Nations and important events of Eartli have been compiled 
and preserved, and it is only for lack of fitting instru- 
ments through which to impart information of these 
records to earth's people on the one hand, and for want of 



118 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

preparation on the part of mortals to receive these reve- 
lations, on the other, that they have not been given in 
more than fragmentary and desultory snatches as yet but 
the centuries will yet bring an epoch when full revela- 
tions will be made. 

At various periods in the earth's history, Continents has 
arisen from the depths of the sea, offered their conditions 
and facilities for habitation to the tribes and races that 
were to populate them, became the seat of Nations and 
dynasties, lived their life, and finally disappeared from the 
face of the Earth. 

These Continents produced, each in turn a race of pre- 
historic people, and it is with some of these that our wri- 
tings have to do. Of these, upon a continent that reached 
the height of its grandeur and power — as well as its 
beauty and bloom, about or nearly trwenty six thousand 
years ago, numbered a race of people who were gentle, 
simple folk, full of loving service to each other. 

A kindly intelligent people, whose minds were stu- 
dious, and who were disposed to listen to the occult teach- 
ings that came to them in the whispers of the night. 
When Nature hushed her myriad voices, as if in obedi- 
ence to the divine behest, save when the gentle lapping of 
waves or the soft stirring of leaves told of the ceaseless 
rythm and motion of Life. 

Beneath the sleepless stars, in the silent watches of the 
night, when balmy hours odorous wit the breath of flow- 
ers stole quietly away — these people held their councils, 
and their seances in which the wisdom of the higher 
realms was evoked, and from which instruction and gui- 
dance in all that pertained to human comfort and spiri- 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 119 

tual elevation was derived, sensitives — or Oracles, Seers, 
Prophets and Teachers dwelt among these folk. Through 
and by these Media of communication between earth and 
eternal worlds many truths were revealed and much of 
practical instruction given. 

Astronomers and Astrologers from other planets com- 
municated with the people revealing wondrous lore con- 
cerning the movements of planetary bodies, their period 
of conjunction with one another, their influence upon each 
other and upon the affairs of men, and much upon kindred 
subjects that may not be revealed to Earth for a hundred 
Centuries to come. Artisans from the higher realms 
came with their knowledge and imparted to certain minds 
information of various kinds that enabled those who 
became skilled in their craft to produce wonderful and 
beautiful effects for the convenience, utility and comfort 
of homes and people, effects in pottery, in wood work, in 
art. 

Scientists who had already lived ages in the spiritual 
realms of the Universe, brought their wisdom down to the 
people of earth and a knowledge of chemistry and of 
alchemy was gained, that enabled the Adepts to produce 
precious stones of every color and brilliancy, beautiful 
metals of purest quality and fineness, and other rare ma- 
terial for the adornment of persons, homes and Temples 
such as the world has never since beheld. 

The engraver's art then became an exhibition of wond- 
rous skill, and traceries and carvings of great beauty de- 
corated the public halls, Schools and Temples, while one 
and another branches of handicraft marked the progress 
of a skilled and refined people whose nicety of perception, 



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was not^satisfied with aught but the highest production of 
mechanics and of art. 

In that period labor was considered noble — no thought 
of degradation of any kind ever entered the human mind, 
as applied to industry and its natural and inevitable 
processes and results. 

Labor was dignified — for in it's pursuit, the grandest 
achievements of mind and muscle were brought into objec- 
tive life. By its expression human energies were increas- 
ed, human skill advanced, human usefulness exalted, and 
human progress assured. The scientist, the artist, and 
the artisan stood side by side in the estimation of the 
race as co-equals in all that make up the dignity of man. 
JSTo worker was or could be despised, and the man who 
was set to dig a ditch that the gardens might be properly 
drained, or to tunnel a path that the mountainous regions 
might be made accessible, or to build a house for the com- 
fort of a fellow being took as much interest in this work, 
and imparted his life elements to it, as did the artist who 
produced beautiful paintings upon the walls of a Temple. 
The sculptor who carved wonderful statuary from the 
stone quarried from mountainous retreat, or the alchemist 
who transformed the baser material of earth and air into 
the delicate metal that might pay the ransom of a King. 
Through labor the child or the man found an education 
and an experience such as he could gain in no other way, 
and the good of one was considered the good of all. 
While the welfare of the race was of individual concern 
and interest. 

The schools of that period were of the highest culture 
and grades of instruction and training — they consisted of 



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various departments of tuition, branches of knowledge in 
the arts, sciences, mechanics, industries and in the intel- 
lectual lines that were pursued by the pupils according to 
age, adaptability and temperament. 

Each intelligent child at the age of four years, was 
taken from its home into a school presided over by gentle 
aud wise women, and by male instructors of judicious 
character, benevolent tenderness, and learned minds. 
The pupil was given the care, training and influence it re- 
quired for the unfoldment of its best talents and the 
development of its individuality, each child was expec- 
ted to cultivate some talents in art — either of music, sing- 
ing, painting, sculptory, architecture or design of one 
kind or another, for all of these were included in the arts. 
Each child also received a thorough drilling in the funda- 
mental branches of liberal education, and was given in- 
struction in one or more branches of industrial labor. 
Therefore every individual — male or female — became well 
equipped for the arena of active life to be entered at the 
adult age, therefore too, every person was a worker in one 
department or another. There were no drones, nor were 
there any consumers to help eat up the general store and 
substance, who were not also producers in the great field 
of work. 

Hence the supply was always equal to the demand, and 
a system of equity was established and maintained that 
made the life of the age worth its living, for all who were 
born upon that continent, every workman of whatever 
grade of labor he pursued, he was an intelligent man, lie 
not only knew all about his line of work and how to pur- 
sue it to the best advantage, but he also knew of the entire 



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merits of the industrial system, he comprehended economic 
principles and understood the foundation sciences of 
mechanics. 

Nor was his knowledge and skill confined to his special 
line of effort, for although he might be a hewer of stone 
or wood or a drawer of water, he might also be a skilled 
designer, a noted musician or a fine artist, and it was no 
uncommon practice for the artist or the scientist to leave 
his tasks in the schools or in the temples and exchange 
places for a period with the worker in the fields or the 
quarries — each of whom were enabled and fitted to fill the 
position thus taken. 

Thus upon the ancient continent was labor dignified, 
and thus was it understood as the heritage and birthright 
of man, which by its intelligent use might prove the step- 
ping stone to di vinest things; for as the mind is trained 
and strengthened by practice in intellectual and scientific 
lines of thought and "industry, so is the body strengthened 
and made more powerful by exercise in various branches of 
manual labor, while also, from this effort the brain is in- 
creased in power, and the mind sharpened to grander ex- 
pansion. 

This truth the ancients understood, and in ennobling 
labor they struck the key note of the grandest and noblest 
chord of an harmonious manhood that the world has ever 
known. 

XXI. 

Upon that ancient continent the inhabitants lived long 
and useful lives, there were no early deaths — except such 



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as we shall presently mention — nor were there any sickly 
nor debilitated beings. Disease was not inherited, 
because if there happened to be any one male or female 
who showed signs of physical debility or infirmity which 
was seldom the case — that individual was prohibited from 
forming conjugal relations,, and of exercising the functions 
of procreation. Occasionally a child would manifest signs 
of mental idiocy, or of physical infirmity, that the wise 
Doctors and Seers pronounced incurable. In such a case 
the little one was put painlessly into such a sleep as would 
enable its spirit to pass out from the body, such a spirit 
would be only enwrapped in a sort of fleecy substance, and 
be retained in the magnetic aura of one of the seers or 
wise ones, until conditions favored its rebirth, in another 
mortal form, that rould give it better facilities for the 
growth of intellect, and the developement of physical 
power than the earlier one had done. 

The ancients did not believe in allowing an idiot or de- 
formed being to live for years in its crippled mortal 
form, but they did believe in giving the spirit a new 
chance to obtain growth, power and experience through 
matter, in a body adapted to its use. Therefore there 
were no human monstrosities — of mental or physical 
growth — upon that Ancient world. Occasionally how- 
ever, through some physical accident or experience an ad- 
dult would become ill or injured, but the methods of cure 
were such that by magnetic and electrical forces intelli- 
gently applied, the sufferer usually received health and 
tone of mind and body — but if he did not in time, he was 
removed to some beautiful retreat where all that skill 
could do, and love furnish, would be provided for his 



124 TUTELAKY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIKITS. 

comfort and use, and there he would remain for the bal- 
lance of his days carefully nursed, and given every facility 
for extracting both pleasure and profit out of life. 

In cases too, where it might be thought beneficial for 
the incurable to pass into the spirit world, he would be 
quietly assisted to do so, without suffering to himself or 
grief to his people, for they understood that a happier ex- 
perience awaited him, but it was very rarely that such 
methods had to be resorted to. 

There was very little sickness upon the continent, for 
the people lived rationally. They understood the value 
of a proper diet, of bathing, exercise and pure air, of 
breathing naturally and of having their clothing adapted 
to the needs of the body. 

Their dress was simple and comfortable. Their robes 
depended from their shoulders and sandals covered their 
feet; circulation was not impeded, and all the muscles of 
the body were brought inta active use. 

Therefore if one should happen to fall ill, he or she 
was in good condition to soon recover health. The recu- 
perative powers of the race were good, and the doctors 
had practically nothing to do in the way of treating the 
sick. Their duty was to teach the people how to live so 
as to preserve health. 

Even in cases of childbirth there was really no suffering 
to speak of, living so naturally made the mother a healthy 
women, and she was enabled to bear her offspring in com- 
fort rather than in sorrow and pain. 

In giving these facts concerning the early life of primi- 
tive man, we do so not only to show what a strong, beau- 
tiful and intelligent race inhabited the ancient continent, 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 125 

but also what a happy, elevated, and intellectual race of 
decarnated spirits they became after they slipped from the 
mortal form. 

Such a race coming to populate the higher realms, must 
have generated and sent far abroad an aura or atmo- 
sphere that was beautiful in appearance, and composed 
of elements of strength, and atoms and forces of durabil- 
ity that could not be destroyed. 

And from this brilliant and useful material, there must 
have been formed, not only other spheres of glory and 
utility but also an envelope* of protective power, that en- 
circled whoever or whatever it was attracted to, become a 
shield of strength and of living might. 

Thus were the early ages filled with the glory of an ad- 
vanced selfhood that even on earth impregnated the atmos- 
phere with a magnetic element and spiritual influence, 
that even subsequent periods of devastation and of atmos- 
pheric disturbences, as well as of human convulsions and 
catastrophes, of famine, rapine, war, and degradation, 
through even centuries of time could not wash out or 
destroy. 

Upon the continent with which we deal in this paper — 
which was only a type of other lands and nations, contem- 
porary with as well as succeeding it — the people lived and 
reared their altars to the unknown but everlasting God. 
For while they believed in tutelary and planetary 
Gods, who could come into more or less touch with them, 
they had faith in one Infinite and Supreme god, Ruler 
of all the Universe whom they worshipped as the almighty 
one. 

But even these intelligent and lofty beings, desired a 



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sign and demanded a symbol of the omnipotent life, and 
this they beheld in the fructifying sun that gave light 
and warmth to the earth and in which they found a never 
failing God — this sun became to them the symbol of 
beauty and of life, but a symbol only, and never the God 
himself whom they worshipped and adored. 

Nor did they give all their attention and devotion to a 
Supreme male Spirit — symbolized by the sun. — for while 
they recognized in the solar orb, the source of light and 
heat, they also believed in a female being as the consort 
and other half of the male Deity, and whose potential 
forces were as important to the earth and its people as 
were those of the greater Luminary. Thus in the Moon 
they found the symbol of the female element, and they 
paid tribute to Luna, the all mother at their altars and 
shrines, holding a special service of song and music in her 
praise each month at the full of the moon, when its re- 
fulgent rays beamed upon them, turning all their beauti- 
ful scenery into silvery light. In the influence of the 
Moon upon the earth, these ancients beheld a significance, 
and a sign that could only be interpreted, as a work of 
beneficience and of good will. 

They studied the movements of the tides, in relation to 
Luna's influence and drew their own conclusions from 
them. They also learned that the crops were more or 
less increased or disturbed by the power of the moon, that 
certain seeds if sown at the full of the moon would germi- 
nate and fructify with wonderful activity, and that cer- 
tain other seed if sown at the same time would decay in 
the ground, or bear but a feeble crop. They observed 
also that woman was influenced in her procreative powers 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 127 

and physical functions by the movements of the moon, 
and they came to the decision that the sun and the moon, 
bore special relations to each other, and to planetary 
action as well as to human beings. And therefore they 
adopted the solar and luna bodies, as their symbols of the 
dual God head. 

The ancients of whom we write, believed all things to 
have a dual nature, they beheld the male and female prin- 
ciple in all life. 

They conceived of nothing without a counterpart or 
mate, and one of the vital tenets of their religion was 
that no spirit entity could be complete. Angel, arch- 
angel or tutelary — without it comprised the duality of 
selfhood, man and woman, counterparts or soul mates, 
two bodies, two soul germs, but one harmonious whole, 
primitive religion was a beautiful and simple recognition 
of the intelligent and glorious source of all life and power. 
A restful faith in the supreme wisdom and justice of that 
omnipotent one, and a constant striving on the part of 
man to grow into a higher understanding of divine law, 
and to personally live in purity of thought and of motive, 
so as to be fitted to reach the higher abodes of immor- 
tality at death, as well as to merit communion with ex- 
alted beings, while in the physical form. 

Upon the continent of these people there were no wars, 
for it was not until long ages afterwards, that man came 
into a state of warfare with his follows, and sought 
through physical powers and conquest to raise himself 
to lofty heights of renown and authority. 

To the simple, yet refined and cultured ancients, the 
taking up of arms against a brother man would have been 



128 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

purely barbarous and they would as quickly have planned 
to murder the infants of their homes, or the wives of 
their bosom, as to scheme to slay any of their fellow men, 
therefore they had no weapons of onslought nor of de- 
fense, for there was no need of such. 

Wild beasts disturbed them not, nor in fact were there 
any such upon the continent, and when methods of 
destruction were required as we have mentiond in the case 
of quietly removing the human idiot or imbecile — simple 
and painless drugs were used to put them into a sleep, 
that knew no waking upon the mortal side. 

XXII. 

So far we have mentioned a continent as a type of 
several that existed — in one ocean and another — from 
twenty to thirty thousand years ago, upon each of these 
large bodies of land, dwelt in the successive and respective 
ages of their history, primitive races, who were in manner 
and thought, living, culture, and achivement precisely 
what we have described in the few preceeding pages of 
this work. 

We shall now select the continent of old Atlantis for 
special mention, with the understanding that our readers 
will consider the people of this ancient continent to be of 
just such a class and character as those we have been por- 
traying to them. 

In the history of the worlds development, there have 
been two great and wonderful Continents upon which 
advanced human beings lived, which are known by the 
name of Atlantis. 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 129 

But while the smaller and more modern of those conti- 
nents only existed at a period of from twelve to fifteen 
thousand years ago, the larger and more Ancient of these 
bodies of land came to the height of its grandeur and 
power about twenty six thousand years ago, for nearly a 
thousand years from that time, the continent as one mag- 
nificent Nation, of intellectual and industrial people 
whose virtue and prosperity have never been surpassed in 
the annals of human history, flourished, before the cata- 
strophe occurred, which swept the Continent and all its 
vast and wonderful possessions from the face of the earth. 

This ancient continent of Atlantis, was situated in the 
pacific ocean, midway or there abouts between Asia and 
America, while the Atlantis of later date, occupied a posi- 
tion in the Atlantic ocean of perhaps a similar latitude. 

The old continent of which we write stretched its shin- 
ing length of mountains and plains over far distances, 
reaching almost to the vicinity of what is now called the 
Japan islands, but the entire area of the continent was 
not inhabited, vast stretches of it consisted of mountanious 
regions that had not been especially coveted as dwelling 
places by primitive man. 

But the valleys were beautiful spots, fertile ami luxuri- 
ous in beauty and bloom, and chiefly in these valleys man 
reared his temples and built home-. 

Quarries of finely grained and handsome stone of differ- 
ent age and quality were opened and these supplied much 
of the material of which the more pretentious edifices 
were composed — while forest fcreea of magnificent growth, 
fche woods of which were handsomely veined and capable 
of receiving a high polish, yielded up the lumber from 



130 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

which many useful and beautiful articles of convenience 
were constructed. 

Flax, cotton, and a certain quality of silken thread 
were produced from vegetable growths, and the looms of 
the period were busily employed in turning out fabrics of 
delicate though substantial texture and of dainty finish, 
rich and beautiful stuffs, colored with dyes of brilliant 
or delicate hue, according to the dyers skill and taste, 
were woven, draperies of which were furnished for the 
schools and temples of learning and of art. 

In that age no one ever thought of living in bare and 
unadorned dwellings, or of placing the pupils of the 
schools in departments or rooms that were not hung with 
lovely draperies and adorned with choice works of art. 
The beautiful in nature as well as in human achievement, 
were called upon to pay tribute to the wants and taste of 
man, and the schools and temples were especially advan- 
ced with all that could delight the eye, and appeal to the 
aesthetic taste of the people. Man in his primitive sim- 
plicity believed that life signified growth and develop- 
ment, and that the wealth and beauty of the kingdom 
were meant for common daily uses as an educational fac- 
tor in the unfoldment of the spiritual nature, hence he 
believed in bringing all that could be obtained from or 
fashioned by skill out of the products of earth, wood, 
mountain quarry or field, for the convenience and admi- 
ration of humanity, into practical daily sight and service. 

It was a recognized quality in the human entity, that 
the love of the beautiful was an inate principle, and that 
in gratifying that love and admiration the finer instincts 
and qualities of the spirit were fed, that would assist in 



TUTELARY GODS AtfD ANCIENT SPIRITS. 131 

developing the more spiritual nature, and bring it into 
higher accord with the Diviner atributes of life. 

Thus in the schools the students were surrounded with 
beautiful hangings, fine pictures, noble statuary, and 
other productions of art or of nature, calculated to im- 
press the sweeter inflences of being, sweet music too 
was discoursed at intervals between the studies, and vocal 
exercises under the auspices of skilled masters of the art 
of singing, were a part of the training of the schools. 
Thus, there could be no brutal growth of passion and of 
carnal influences, in the lives of the youth of that period, 
for the very atmosphere was tinged, with the refined qua- 
lities of all that was sweet and good. 

Yet the people were by no means weak or pusillanimous 
in mentality or in character, nor were their physical 
powers deficient in strength and quality of endurance. 
As has been said of the ancients in preceding pages, they 
were all workers, each human being having been fitted 
and trained for some class of manual as well as of mental 
labor and in the exercises of brain and muscle, they deve- 
loped a power of physical strength, and of thinking and 
of planing capacity that was grand. Xor were they at 
all lacking in the elements of courage and of mental 
endurance, for they were a brave and self-reliant people 
and not one of them would have been weak and helpless, 
if fate had cast them adrift upon unknown shores or 
open seas. In attempting to depict something of the life 
and habits of these ancient people, we quite despair of 
giving an adequate idea of them, for this modern age 
would hardly credit the beauty and the simplicity of a 
people living in the midst of luxury, art, Learning, and yet 



132 TUTELAEY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

subsisting upon the fruit of garden and field, and wearing 
the simplest of home made garments when all the magnifi- 
cence of a land teeming with the grandest of productions 
was at their command. 

But so it was, for while silken hangings and beautiful 
works of art adorned the schools, temples and many 
homes, yet the people lived on simple fruits, nuts, and 
vegetable oils, and clothed themselves in garments of 
plain yet graceful fashion. 

A studious people content to improve themselves by the 
instruction of the teachers and high priests, and to study 
the arts and sciences as well as the various branches of 
industry, not to enhance their wordly position, or to add 
to their material wealth and prosperity, but that they 
might become more learned and wise, and fitted to adorn 
the world of spirit which they were to enter bye and bye. 

Many of the inland cities of ancient Atlantis were built 
in a circular form yet there were a few like Humenia, 
that facing the sea, were fashioned like a crescent, the 
two horns of which seemed to dip into the sea itself. 

The circular cities were mostly built of a white and 
shining stone somewhat resembling Alabaster, and of a 
very durable nature. This stone was exceedingly hard, 
yet the finely tempered tools of the engraver and the sculp- 
tor were able to cope with it and to work out handsome 
designs for the ornamentation of building, fountain or 
court, in the centre of each circular formed city was 
always a lofty temple dedicated to the arts and sciences, 
also to learning in other branches of instruction and to 
religious service. 

An immense structure with various departments and 



TUTELAKY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. lo3 

many halls and wings each adapted to some special use. 
In this temple the high priest and head supervisor of all 
the schools, performed his labors and wrought his mar- 
velous works for the education and enlightenment of the 
people, and here his learned assistants and attendants 
made their revelations or taught and trained their pupils 
and apprentices according to their work and needs. It 
is a trite and a true maxim that there is nothing new 
under the sun, for in every department of human thought 
and achievment what it has been in the past, time and 
again. Nature has repeated herself not only in the pro- 
duction of planets, and the construction of continents, 
but also in the history of nations and of men. 

Therefore there is nothing at the present day on the 
earth however magnificent it may be, but has had its pro- 
totype in the past — and the same may be affirmed of the 
crudest, grossest existing forms today. 

Art and science in this modern age may be said to lead 
the world in their generous creations and revelations* 
Yet in bygone ages, these branches of human — yet divine 
— revelation and achivement, far surpassed the grandest 
of all modern works. 

Tn the light of this fact, man will be pardoned in the 
belief that the world is retrograding rather than advanc- 
ing in the higher forms of civilization and of human 
knowledge and achievement; but it is not so, the human 
family is forever reaching upward to higher and more 
glorious things, and the progress - as a whole is onward. 
Planets in their evolution, developing, one higher type 
after another of form and species, and one grander 
climatic condition alter another, pass through their 



134 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

periods of life and daikness, storm and shine, so with 
humanity in its evolution or unfold ment to higher grades 
of learning and power, passing through periods of seeming 
decadence and retrogression, but in spite of all, tending 
onward in the progressive march, to the highest of all 
culture, power and knowledge, and to the grandest of all 
heights of sublimity and love, thus is the world moving 
on, each age meeting its failures and its triumphs for its 
ultimate good. 



XXIII. 

The Atlantians spoke a musical language which was free 
from idioms, and of the purest simplicity. They also 
dealt largely in symbols, and their artists produced many 
pictures, that were symbolical of the life and the times. 

The high priests of the temples were like kindly and 
benign fathers to their flock, but they did not lead the 
people blindly, for each man, woman and child who 
listened to the instruction of the high priest was encour- 
aged to cultivate habits of thought and reflection and to 
practice that of research, so that each could be well in- 
formed upon any subject and qualified to intelligently 
discuss and comprehend it. 

The high priest therefore was a teacher — not merely a 
minister of religous service — and his pride was ever to so 
train his followers as to have them show the highest 
unfoldment]of intellectual and of spiritual power. 

The Goverment of the nation was that of the people by 
whose voice rulers were elected. The chief of the nation 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 135 

was one of great learning and of practical thought and 
wisdom who was selected by acclamation. This chief 
appointed his own advisers who were also individually 
male and female of high standing, cultured, wise, and 
refined. These advisers constituted with their chief a 
council of twelve, and their appointments always received 
the ratification of the people, for if any member of the 
council should be objected to by the popular vote, he or 
she would be excused from taking a seat in the council 
and the positon would' be filled by the choice of the popu- 
lace. The continent was divided off into districts — similar 
to the states of America — each of the districts was pre- 
sided over by the high priest of its temple, who had in 
charge the various offices and functionaries who made up 
his council, and whom he consulted on all important 
affairs of state. 

This high priest and his staff were all selected and elect- 
ed by the people, the high priest himself, holding li is 
office through his life, his functionaries holding their 
positons for a period of five or ten years respectively, 
with the possibility of re-election for another term. 

Every intelligent man in the district was, expected to 
be capable of filling any high office to which be might be 
called and it was a point of the education of the schools 
to implant a knowledge of government and of economic 
principles in the mind of cadi pupil. 

The system of government was of a parental and a 
patriarchal character. The government managed fche in- 
dustries, and through its offices, apportioned off to each 
of its children his share of work. All the products of 
field and orchard were turned into one common store- 



136 TUTELAKY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

house or granery and distributed or disposed of according 
to the wisdom and decision of the council, while each in- 
dustrious individual received his proportionate share. 

Electrical force was largely employed in the various 
mechanics and industries of the age and was well under- 
stood. Its machinery was delicately constructed and not 
of a cumbrous character. 

Especially in modes of transit was this electricity used, 
and the carriages and ships and air cars were propelled 
mostly by this serviceable agent. 

The various industries being conducted upon a wise 
and just plan of distribution, and proportionate equality, 
there were no long days of labor required of any one, six 
hours of active work, six hours for study, six for recrea- 
tion, social intercourse and holding of seances, for com- 
munication with the unseen, and for any pleasant and 
helpful entertainment, and six hours for sleep. 

This was about the proportion of time held out to those 
who were at the working age. 

The ancients being a healthy people, and being true to 
nature were not easily exhausted of nerve force and 
tissue, hence six hours of slumber out of twenty four suffic- 
ed to give them all the recuperative force they required. 
They had then many hours in which to develope their 
tastes and cultivate the personal qualities and friendships, 
as well as to study deep subjects, and perform such labor 
as was required of them. 

And life upon the continent was a happy existence, 
pleasantry and sociability abounded, hospitality marked 
the family circle, the whole country was filled with a con- 
tented, kindly disposed, courteous and intelligent race 



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that sent out an atmosphere of hearty good will and 
cheer, and an aura of light and perfume that permeated 
all tilings, with its radiance and warmth. 

There was no poverty upon Atlantis, no one could 
become poor and wretched, for there was no injustice, and 
no discord in all the realm, therefore beggary was un- 
known. The traveler through any populated district 
could set out on a journey with no food in his pouch, and 
with no coin or its value by which to purchase lodging, 
for he was as sure of being kindly entertained as the kith 
and kin of the people along his route, as he was sure that 
he would kindly entertain any one who might be a travel- 
er in his own vicinity. For indeed the people of each 
district, were as the brothers and sisters of one great 
family of whom the high priest was the head or sire and 
his consort the mother of them all. And should any 
one from other districts arrive they were taken in and 
cared for just as if they were expected and well loved kin. 

The high priest and his functionaries, were all married 
people. Celibacy was not in order nor in favor on the an- 
cient continent ; conjugal relations were sought and upheld. 
The felicities of wedlock were extolled, and the duallity 
of Life as symbolized in the marital relation of man and 
woman was revealed as the sign and token of the great 
Dual force of being, represented by the solar and lunar 
Orbs. 

In those days there was no inequality of the sexes — man 

and woman occupied equal planes. In after centuries 

there arose nations in other quarters of the planet in 

which woman held superior office and ruled the affairs of 

state, but in the day ol these ancient Atlantians, man and 



138 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

woman occupied the same station, and each was the com- 
plement of the other in wisdom, order, knowledge and 
power. 

Each high priest had his consort, who was also a person 
of dignity, of honor, and of intelligence — so too, every 
other officer of general affairs had his female, or her male — 
counterpart. 

Women frequently filled offices of importance, and dis- 
charged their duties with wisdom and ability. Occupying 
equal ground with man and provided with the oportuni- 
ties for the cultivation and growth of her intellectual and 
spiritual qualities, it goes without saying that the children 
of such a woman came into being well equipped for the 
duties and the experiences of life. 

Thus upon ancient Atlantis the beauty and bloom of 
paradise reigned. It was the garden spot of the world. 
Its people were magnificent specimens of man and 
womanhood. It was a golden age in which the higher 
proclivities and principles of humanity prevailed. Yet we 
are told that even a higher and grander cult and manhood 
will reign on earth, and even a more delightful golden age 
will come before the planet reaches its height of progress 
and begins its decline. 

The Atlantians possessed a knowledge of printing or of 
transcribing thought into language in such form as to 
preserve it for future generations. But the ponderous 
machinery of the press room was unknown. Their manner 
of printing was different from the modern process. Their 
presses were constructed of delicate frame work. Men of 
genius and skill were the printers, whose good judgement 
selected the news and the matter to be published. 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 139 

There was little of local affairs printed, but news from 
the upper spirit regions, through Media was abundant and 
bulletins of information accompanied with appropriate 
illustrations of the subject represented were frequently 
sent out through the district and over the land. 

The people living in the cities mostly pursued the 
mechanical arts and industries or nourished as musicians, 
singers, poets, painters and scientists. 

Those of the outlying country were agriculturalists and 
workers in wood and stone. Once in seven days the 
people of all the district came together in and about the 
temple and the city was filled with the cheerful throng. 
On that occasion public exercises were held, consisting of 
preaching, singing, music, oratory and art exhibitions. 
The service of the day was especially religious, yet it had 
both a spiritual and intellectual significance that was pre- 
cious to its observers. On this day of general meeting a 
feast of fruits, of corn and of unfermented juices, was 
held at which libations were poured upon a flower crowned 
altar to the gods and thangsgiving offered up in tuneful 
voice to the supreme one for the blessing of life. 

Corn and rice were raised in abundance upon the con- 
tinent which afforded much nutriment to the hungry. 
These were well cooked and eaten with wild honey or with 
sugary juices distilled from fruits of rich flavor, ami were 
highly esteemed for their nutritive and palatable qualities. 
Once in six months a special festival was held by the cen- 
tral goverment in the most important — or capital city of 
the nation, to which many of the people of the various 
districts journied for it was considered a festival of the 

gods. 



140 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 



XXIV. 

The ancient Atlantians were a noble people, in personal 
appearance as well as in spiritual culture and in mental 
ability. 

They had no doubt of the soul's immortality for they 
were in constant communion with the denizens of higher 
realms, from which much of their own wondrous learning 
and training in the arts and sciences was gained. 

Each of the grand temples of that vast continent, was 
built aronnd a great square or court, which was paved 
with precious stone. In the centre of this spacious court, 
stood a magnificent altar built upon geometrical lines, 
and of costly workmanship. The altar was composed of 
rare and brilliant metal which was so highly polished that 
the rays of the sun reflected from its burnished surface 
as from a crystal mirror. Upon this altar fruits and flow- 
ers were daily heaped in rich profusion, not as an offering 
to an unknown God, but as sweet oifering to the spiritual 
guides, who directed and attended the people. On the 
evening of each day these sweet herbs and fruits were 
burned, and from them there arose an inscense that in its 
aromatic daintiness seemed a fitting oifering to the hea- 
venly world. 

The climate of the continent was an equable one — semi- 
tropical fruits and flowers grew abundantly. A luxuriance 
of growth — not in rank profusion, but in beautiful symme- 
try — marked the valleys and the foot hills of each moun- 



TUTELARY GODS AN"D ANCIENT SPIRITS. 141 

tain range, the seasons varied but little in temperature 
and atmospheric conditions. 

That which corresponded to a summer of a later period 
was marked with certain warm winds, that were unknown 
in the winter season, but these were tempered by the 
freshness of the sea, while the cooler seasons were devoid 
of frosts and of wintry snows. So that at all times the 
flowers and fruits grew abundantly. 

There were no heavy storms; each period of time had its 
sunny hours, and its hours when gentle rains softly fell 
refreshing earth and sward, with their beneficient dews. 
The nights as a rule were comfortably cool, and of a clear 
and beautiful radiance that lent a bewitching glamour to 
valley and hill. 

Crops were easily raised, and the husbandman had the 
pleasure of receiving bountiful harvests for his pains and 
labors in orchard and field. 

Atlantis was a beautiful world, a continent of power 
and of loveliness, capable of producing fine products of 
nature and of humanity. A kingdom that the greatest 
potentate of all the earth might envy and aspire to rule. 

But Atlantis is of the past; thousands of years have 
swept over her grave iD the mighty deep. Epochs have 
come and gone. Nations have risen and decayed. Worlds 
have sprung into beauty and spun along their shining 
track ; Kaces have come upon the scene of earthly action 
and have been swallowed up in the mighty tide of evolu- 
tion and of time, but still the waves chanl their requiem 
over the graves of old Atlantis and still her magnificent 
cities lie buried deep, deep beneath the shining waters of 
the restless sea. The Capitol city of that ancient, eonti- 



142 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

nent was situated in the centre of the country, so as to be 
accessible from all regions where man abode. It was a 
splendid city, circular in appearance and built up of shin- 
ing stones, some of alabaster whiteness and others of rain- 
bow tinted hues, as is mother of pearl, the public buildings 
of this city were very grand and massive and there were 
many of them so that the entire City shone in the sun- 
light — or even beneath the rays of the billowy moon — as if 
it were set with magnificent and immense jewels that 
shone with an interior luminosity in some instances and 
in others with irredescent light. In this central city were 
the chief buildings of government and of national affairs. 

Here too were the spacious and handsome residences of 
high officials, of priests, teachers, seers and philosophers. 

From this part of the world went oat many an advanced 
character to found schools, or to fill positions of trust in 
other localities. Once in six months — as time is now un- 
derstood — the high priests and the teachers of each 
district journeyed to the capitol and came into conference 
with the chief executive of the Nation. The delibera- 
tions of these councils lasted for three days, after which 
the visitors returned to their homes and their own charge 
to pursue their work with fidelity and zeal. In the capitol 
city were many temples of beauty and of learning — but 
the chief of these was the seat of government which occu- 
pied an immense square, and which was presided over by 
the head of the Nation and his noble spouse. 

For convenience sake we will call their principle city of 
the nation Etruria, and the chief executive may be known 
in these pages as Constantia, for we are now approaching 
a time in the History of Atlantis when the presidency of 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 143 

one out of many great and good souls who were identified 
with the existence of the continent, stands out in the 
spiritual annals of the times with brilliancy and power. 

The period of which we now write was not that of the 
closing century of Atlantis, but one that preceded it for 
three hundred years— let us here remark that as the Atlan- 
tians as a race were a long lived people, it was no uncom- 
mon sight to see individuals actively engaged in their stu- 
dies and pursuits who had all the appearance of persons 
in their full vigor of health and strength who had rounded 
out more than an hundred years. 

At this time — when Constantia presided over the affairs 
of the nation, the chief executive was usually elected for 
a term corresponding to that of twenty-five years of this 
modern age but at the close of this term, it was made a 
law that the president like the high priests or governors 
of the various districts should hold his office for life. 
The possibility that any officer could or would do any- 
thing to deserve impeachment or deposement never occur- 
red to this simple and harmonious people. The continent 
had flourished for over a thousand years and there had 
never been any sign of treason or of mismanagement on 
the part of any of its officers ; and so well preserved waa 
their wisdom and manhood a patriarch of one hundred 
years was fully competent to guide the affairs of state. 
To be sure there was but little technical or complicated 
machinery to be run. Simple rules of living, beneficient 
laws and spiritual teachings completed the code of Govern- 
ment as well as of morals. 

Religion and politics were all one in the sense thai a 
knowledge of spiritual law and its relations to man, un- 



144 TUTELARY GODS AHD AHC1EKT SPlMfS. 

derlay the man made law that protected or guided 
the nation and its wards. What was of importance 
to the race whether religions or political had an equal 
significance to the people, and as harmony prevailed the 
country looked like one beautiful home, in which each of 
the family members bore his or her part with the utmost 
willingness and grace. 

During the administration of Constantia, the practice 
arose of holding seances at stated intervals during which 
high messengers from supernal realms announced them- 
selves, bearing heralds of significance from above. This 
was brought about through the agency of Stancia the wife 
of the high chief, whose occult powers of penetration were 
of a grand character. 

Seances for holding communion with the unseen forces 
and intelligences had long been in vogue with the high 
priests and various teachers of the different districts, but 
the common people had not taken part in them. But at 
this time, Stancia declared that the Tutelary Gods of the 
planet had made known to her through his planetary 
co-workers, that the time had come for the masses to be 
more fully instructed in the lore and the wisdom of the 
heavens and that seances were to be held in each commu- 
nity which all who chose might attend, and that she — 
Stancia, was to go forth and visit each district, holding or 
establishing a public seance in each, and set to work the 
forces and intelligent powers of the air in developing 
media for the communion of souls. It was also announced 
that planetary beings from six planets were to visit earth 
and through her mediumship found an order of great 
power and significance which should include in its ritual 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 145 

the rights observed by similar bodies on other and older 
planets, and that this order would be composed of all per- 
sons who had attained a certain age and degree of experi- 
ence, who would be willing to specially train and prepare 
themselves for their initiation into it, and that the order 
would be the means of developing a class of psychics or 
seers that would be all glorious in power. 

It was further revealed to Stancia by the Tutelary — 
through his agents, that in the course of a few hundred 
years Atlantis would lie engulfed, and that all of its 
people, but a few who would previously sail away to other 
parts of the Globe, would perish, but that the principles 
of this ancient planetary order would be preserved, and 
handed down to future — or succeeding ages and tribes of 
men, and again and again be incorporated into forms and 
manifestations for the uplifting and instruction of 
humanity. 



XXV. 

According to the instructions thus laid upon Stancia 
by the planetary guides, the work of opening seances in 
various districts and in establishing an occult order of 
such individuals, who had proved themselves willing and 
competent to observe the special rules of training and 
culture laid down for them, was inaugurated. 

Beginning with the founding of this occult school and 
seance in Etruria at the grand temple, each (list ict of 
the country was in turn visited by Stancia and her spouse 
Constantia, at which the work was continued. 



146 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

Then came many of the people to learn of the things 
which were to be revealed to them through the instrumen- 
tality of the first lady of the land, and the order which 
she established nourished and grew, until it included, in 
its membership a representative of each family in the 
country. 

In each district the branch of the Order, held it's 
councils semi-monthly in the temple of the city, and at 
these regular meetings various exercises were held; 
among these exercises were sweet musicians and also the 
sounding of musical instruments that were unseen by 
mortal eye, but plainly beheld in the hands of celestial 
visitants, by the psycnic sight of the sensitives present. 

There was also a communication read by the chief of 
the Council from Stancia, of matters upon planetary 
studies, also on spiritual topics that were to be studied 
and discussed by the members of the order, as well as 
messages received and transcribed by the Media in the 
temple directly from the spiritual world, at these meet- 
ings much knowledge of life and the Universe was im- 
parted from the celestial realms, and under the auspices 
of this grand order of psychic study and research. The 
country flourished as it had never done before. 

Once in every thirteen months — which in those times 
constituted a year, there was a grand meeting of all the 
branches of the mystic order at Etruria and a general 
exchange of wisdom and a comparison of labors were 
expressed. 

At this grand mass assembly, Stancia was always influ- 
enced to make an address of great length and of match- 
less eloquence and power that held her auditors spell 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 147 

bound for hours, and no one dreamed of being uneasy or 
weary at the length of her address. During the progress 
of this order — and of the administration of jmblic affairs 
by Constantia and Stancia, one planetary intelligence from 
each planet of the six frequently took posession of the 
organism of their oracle and gave wonderful information 
concerning the code of ethics that prevailed upon their 
respective planets. 

From these statements it was learned that every one of 
the planets of the solar system, was even in that remote 
age inhabited by advanced human intelligences and that 
it had been so for ages of time. Also that millions of 
other planets existed in the universe which were inhabi- 
table worlds, and that countless solar systems revolved in 
space, each one comprising a universe of potency and 
power within itself, and all filling the Heavens with glory 
and with ineffable Light. It was then revealed that the 
Universe is a circle of light without end or beginning as 
far as human penetration can learn, and that it is in itself 
the stupendous framework or body of the Everlasting 
God, that in its centre glows and burns the soul force of 
deity from which primarily emanates every soul germ of 
planetary life. 

That each star and planet and sun of every solar system 
is but an atom of the great body of Infinite power and 
that the whole starry universe composes the manifesta- 
tion of the supreme intelligence. How vastly more 
grand and glorious is this wonderful revelation and 
conception of deity, than was that of later ages, in which 
man believed the little earth to be the only Inhabited 
body of the skies, and the stars to be only lamps to 



148 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

light his way. That belief that thinks of the abode of 
God as in the narrow centre of the theological heavens, 
consisting of a white throne upon which he forever sits 
in majesty surrounded by angelic beings forever shout- 
ing Hosannahs to the lamb. 

Oh that we could transport our readers back to the 
country of the Atlantians, that they might listen to the 
revelations of Stancia, and revel in the beauty of Atlan- 
tian delights. But no, that garden of the Gods is 
washed over by the waves of a restless sea, and its people 
have found higher joys in the creation of spheres of 
Light and of wisdom that are affording homes of lovli- 
ness to countless hosts of progressive souls. 

In every age of the earth's history, however, since the 
time of Atlantis there have been born some human beings 
with conceptions of the true nature of the Universe and 
of God, beings whose intuitions have led them in the 
true paths of contemplation and of reflection in spite of 
the crudities of external life, and of the narrow formulas 
of faith and creed which error and misconception have 
woven for the world. 

Chief among the planetary tutors and visitors who 
possessed Stancia for a time came a high personage from 
Jupiter. — This was a magnificent specimen of manhood, 
about fifteen feet in height of massive proportions and 
splendid presence, a being whose countenance shone like 
the sun and one whose very nature must have seemed 
that of a God to the oracles and seers who gazed upon 
him. The planetary visitor did not of course enter into 
the aura of Stancia, but he enwrapped and overshadowed 
her by his glorious atmosphere and influence and while 



TUTELARY U0l)3 AND AM mm SPIRITS. 1 W 

she was thus possessed her own countenance and figure 
became illuminated and transfigured, beyond the power 
of human mind to describe. 

It was from this visitor from that wondrous and majes- 
tic planet now called Jupiter, that revelations of his 
planet were gained — knowledge of its marvelous breadth 
and height; of its stupendous possibilities, of its people 
and their modes of living, all of which were very far in 
advance of even the beautiful life of Atlantis on the 
planet Earth. 

From this Jupiterian visitor was also gained a know- 
ledge of the moral code of this world, but then be it re- 
marked that upon advanced planets, there is in reality 
no need for any expressed code of morals in the guidance 
of the people for they are a law unto themselves, a law of 
purity, goodness, and of wisdom. 

The language of the Jupiter folk is a universal one but 
very different from that of any tribe or race that earth 
has ever produced. But the planetary instructor from 
that world knew how to adapt himself to the understand- 
ing of the Atlantians and could we but reproduce for the 
people of earth in these modern days the sweet signifi- 
cance and lofty utterences of speech and thought of At- 
lantis, it would be a pleasure to express the moral ethics 
given from Jupiter to the people of earth. Yet if we do 
our best we may succeed in making an impression upon 
some of the intuitive souls who are ready for the truth, 
as translated from the Atlantian transcription of frag- 
ments of Jupiterian revelation, we may quote as follows: 
"Of time there was no beginning, neither can there be 



150 TUTELARY GODS AKD AHCIEKT SPIRITS. 

any end. The universe of space always was, and ever 
shall be. 

The essence of planetary life dwell in the bosom of the 
infinite power, and ever springing into form at the 
breath and will of God. Eternal causation rules the 
Universe. Its potency is forever bringing into life new 
forms of Being and of activity. God ever has been and 
ever will be. 

The finite mind comprehends not God. The genesis 
of worlds and of men may be revealed, but there is no 
genesis of the creative force of God for that which ever 
has been and ever shall be can have no generation and no 
history. 

Birth, Growth and decline can have no part in the life 
of God. Man is but a globule in the life current of the 
infinite, globules yield up their force, their forms decay, 
but the potential qualities live forever in new forms and 
revitalized activities. 

Man lives forever in soul power and force. He is a 
microcosm of the Universe. Within his frame are all the 
wondrous arteries and tissues and fibers and powers of 
the great whole, in miniature. What the living breath- 
ing form is to the soul the universe is to God, without 
the soul essence and light, mans organic frame would 
have no power, it would not hold together as an organized 
form. 

Without God the Universe would be void of force and 
light, it could not hold together as the framework and 
setting oi worlds. 

God is light, God is force, God is intelligence, God is 
life. Souls march on from world to world. No human 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIEITS. L51 

ego is destined to spend an eternity on any one planet and 
its spiritual zones. 

Ages may roll while the entity is gaining experience 
and nnfoldment on one or another planet. Thousands of 
years are but as so many whisperings of the sea of the 
spirit. 

Ten thousand times ten thousand years may pass while 
one being is gaining his lessons in a world, yet shall he 
move on to higher planets, move on to the music of the 
marching spheres, forever gaining new distinctions, for- 
ever reaching unto new pathways for knowledge and 
power. 

Eternity swallows up a million of years and the soul 
moves on into new conditions, it sweeps on reaching the 
planets that burn in celestial glory along the highway of 
the stars. 

On, on, from zone to zone, from milky way to milky 
way, forever on, not alone, but attended by companiable 
hosts whose march like his is forever on." 



XXVI. 

Such are the fragments of what the Atlantians received 
in the days of Stancia the oracle. 

Here too is the synopsis of the unwritten moral code uf 
the Jupiterian, a code from which there is no appeal and 
no deviation a code unwritten but accepted and practiced 
by all people. 

"God is light — therefore shall we seek to walk in the 



152 TUTELAEY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIEITS. 

light". "God is Light — therefore shall we abide in the 
light, and shall the light abide in us." 

"God is Light, God is in the soul of man, hence light 
is the soul. Therefore shall we unfold the soul by wise 
living and noble practice, that the light may shine from 
and through our bodies to illuminate all our path." 

"God is love — therefore shall we seek to walk in love." 

God is love therefore shall we seek to abide in love, and 
shall love abide in us." 

"God is love, therefore shall we behold the face of God 
in working through love for the blessing of men. There- 
fore in cultivating love in the soul and sending it forth 
through light, shall we feel the presence and the breath 
of God." 

"God is wisdom — let us seek wisdom and understand- 
ing then shall we seek God and his glory. God is wisdom 
therefore as we grow in wisdom shall we be growing in 
the likeness of God which is beauty and power ! 

God is life — in life we live, and breathe and move, in 
life unfolded by the highest principles of light and love 
and wisdom. In life we are centerd to the vast possibili- 
ties and potencies of Causation and Expression. In life 
we are one with God." 

"Light dispels darkness, love creates harmony, wisdom 
begets power, life contains all potentialities. Life is 
God. Man is in God, of God. God is eternal good. Man 
must work for good, grow for good, live for good. lie 
can only generate light, love, wisdom and live the true 
life who is good." 

Such an imperfect transcription of the moral code and 
unwritten creed of the Jupiterians as given to the people 



TUTELARY GODS AND AXCIEXT SPIRITS. A',:] 

of Atlantis through Stancia, the beautiful wife of Con- 
stantia the good and wise chief magistrate of a nation of 
peaceable and intelligent human beings who nourished in 
the Eden land of Earth twenty five thousand years ago. 

It was the custom of the Atlantians to chant invoca- 
tions to the high celestials who came to them from super- 
nal spheres and planets, inviting them continued mini- 
stration and expressing gratitude for their attendance, 
and it also became the practice of the planetary visitants 
to respond in chanting measures and rythmic tune to the 
salutations of their children on earth. 

Occasionally there would be a public procession through 
the beautiful city streets, a procession of just numberless 
vehicles — flower wreathed, filled with white robed mai- 
dens, each wearing upon her breast a miniature symbol 
of the sun — then followed on foot a column of young lads 
clothed in sky blue robes, wearing upon their breasts a 
symbol of the ancient, order a crescent and star, after 
these appeared the president and his spouse in yellow 
robes georgeous and silken, he wearing the emblem of Sol 
— and she that of Luna. This pair and their council rode 
together in a snow white chariot wreathed in vines of 
flowers — not wholly like the pretty "morning-glory" of 
to-day. Their chariot was horseless — as were all the 
vehicles — and was propelled by electric power. Following 
these dignitaries came men of youthful vigor yet bearing 
the marks of experience who were handsomely gowned in 
the robes of dainty green that symbolized the frnctibility 
of the earth and its luxurious growth. There ware musi- 
cians who discoursed sweet music along ilic route, they 
bore wind instruments of golden material upon which they 



154 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

blew with precision and skill. These men also wore 
insignia which symbolized the bounties of nature, and 
which were of beautiful design. 

After these marched the high priest in robes of office — 
snowy, girdled at the belt with golden cords — these priests 
were decorated with a golden miniature of the globe. 
Following them were squads of teachers, philosophers, ar- 
tists, musicians, scientists and seers, some on foot and 
others in vehicles and all wearing their appropriate robes 
and insignia. 

Nor were the riders and footmen obliged to walk or ride 
according to caste, but each chose his own method of 
locomotion and many of the highest officers preferred to 
walk while some of the humblest citizens rode in vehicles 
in the great parade. 

Among the bands of musicians was one that presented 
a spectacle of great beauty and which pleased the specta- 
tors very much, this was a band of harpists and players 
upon small stringed instruments — the harps being small 
in construction and easily carried, this band consisted of 
a number of lovely young women representing the sea, 
each of which was clad in robes of blue crested with 
foamy white, or of sparkling green tinted with a p urplish 
bloom and necked with purest white to resemble the 
waves in their varying lovely tints. 

The procession thus mentioned was one in honor of na- 
ture, the Goddess of life, and was usually formed in 
recognition of some unusually bountiful harvest or of 
some event in nature that bore greater significance to the 
world than the customary events or seasons gave. 

But to return to Constantia and his beautiful wife — 



TUTELARY GODS AXD AXCIEXT SPIRITS. 155 

Stancia the oracle through the advices which he — the 
President received from the upper world. Constantia 
inaugurated a system of public exercises that served to 
bring the president and his council in direct touch with 
all the citizens and which only served to cement the bond 
of friendship and affection existing between them all. 
So equable was the climate that the people were enabled 
to live out of doors, and Constantia caused an immense 
area of land to be converted into an open park, laid out 
in squares and beds of flowers, groves of trees and banks 
of verdure, and adorned with fountains and statues of 
grace and beauty. To this park it was the custom of the 
chief executive to repair toward the close of day and to 
hold intercourse with any of the citizens who might wish 
to converse with him upon any matter whatsoever — for 
there was nothing that could be of the slightest interest 
to even the humblest — if there were such — of his people 
that was considered insignificant to the great and wise 
man. 

It was upon one of his visits to the park that Constan- 
tia, walking quietly by himself in a grove of lofty trees 
the foliage of which made shadows all around him, that 
he beheld a man of gigantic presence rapidly approaching 
him, as apparently out of the very air. 

This visitor had a shining countenance and appeared 
as one who had come from some celestial world, for though 
the higher class of Atlantians such as the high priests 
and oracles had really been born of superior parentage and 
were themselves but reincarnated planetary beings and 
hence were of shining aspect and destingnished presence, 
yet there was something about this visitor that set him 



156 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

apart from the people of the continent and which surely 
designated him as a being of another and a more ad- 
vanced race. 

^As the gigantic man approached Constantia observed 
that he was not walking, but was rather gliding in the 
air, and that he carried in his hand a scroll of shining 
white parchment that glittered like a roll of light in the 
fast increasing shadows of the twilight. For it was now 
the close of day — most of the people had gone to their 
homes, and many of them were busy with their dainty eve- 
ning meal of cakes and nuts and fruits, Constantia was 
alone, for at this hour Stancia was always closetted in 
the temple with her celestial guides and usually in a 
trance condition in which she travelled about in spirit 
through many spheres visiting other worlds and meeting 
with beings of planetary power and light. 

Thus Constantia was alone to meet his celestial guest ; 
the latter continued to draw nearer and in a moment 
descended to the earth and stood before the ruler — or pre- 
sident of Atlantis. But in the presence of this august 
being the great president seemed no larger than a child 
or at least a dwarf, and the visitor was obliged to seat 
himself upon the ground in order to bring his face on a 
level with that of the Atlantian man. 



XXVII. 

The entire face and figure of the celestial visitor 
shown with a strange and brilliant luminosity. A light 
that was not of earth shone around and through him and 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT BPIBITS. \ ■>', 

his magnificient eyes were filled with an intense power 
that seemed to pierce his earthly companion through. 
Constantia had never before seen such a being as this but 
he was not afraid, a deep emotion of awe mingled with 
wonderment stole through his frame but with this no 
element of fear was felt. For a moment the two entities 
were motionless, each gazing into the eyes of the other 
in profound silence, but presently the visitor from the 
skies spoke, his voice seemed like the soft strains of far 
away music yet penetrating and distinct. 

Translated into the modern tongue, the speech of the 
celestial was as follows : "Oh Constantia, child of a favored 
race. Thou hast been selected to guide and to represent 
a great and important nation. Long ages before thy 
mortal birth thou wert a being of the planetary spheres; 
that earth might have a fitting soul to help to conduct its 
affairs and to develope its powers thou wert selected by 
wisdom guides to descend upon this mortal plane, and to 
pass an experience upon Atlantis. Stancia, thy consort 
wert thy companion in the planetary realms, and she too 
came to earth to be they helper and thy mate. For 
k no west thou that Stancia is a great seeress and an ad- 
vanced soul. Only once hath thy wife conceived and bore 
a child. This child is thy infant son Fontis. He is a 
child of the Gods. Fontis will grow and thrive, he will 
become a great teacher and a leader of the people. From 
his loins will descend a race of seers and teachers who 
will be high priests and leaders in the closing years of 
Atlantis. 

"Knowest thou Constantia, that the continent that 
thee and thy people do live upon is doomed. Its course 



158 TUTELAKY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIKITS. 

will run three centuries when it will be swept into the 
sea, and all the world in ages yet to dawn will mourn its 
fate. 

"But so is it written in the history of earth. Planetary 
law and action hath decreed the doom of Atlantis. 

"Long ere its fate shall overtake thy continent, thou 
and thine will have joined the planetary beings of the 
spheres. Thy descendents, the children of thy Fontis' 
children Cabul arid Iberna, the grand workers who are 
brothers even now in planetary life will bear a part in the 
closing scene of Atlantian life, and will go down with the 
continent to its doom. So hath it been decreed by the 
law of Universal fate. 

"Constantia, take this scroll, bear it to thy home. 
Open not until thou join thy wife. With thy Stancia 
read thou the contents of this scroll, above the sleeping 
form of thy infant son. Mark its contents well, nor let 
them pass from mind, for thou art chosen as a messenger 
to thy people. A messenger of truth from the everlast- 
iDg heavens. 

"Thou doth wonder oh Constantia who thy visitant 
from the planets may be. Know thou oh son of earth> 
that he who now speaketh with thee, is a dweller in the 
planetary spheres of Mars, a worker of wonders and of 
signs, one who was thy sire ere the planet earth sprang 
into being and was sent forth whirling in space. Thou 
art my Son." 

As the strange visitor who was still seated upon the 
ground uttered these words and declared his relationship 
to the president of Atlantis — the latter felt a thrill of 
emotion surging through his being, and there opened to 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 1,59 

his sight a scene of surprising loveliness. A scene of 
some far off past, in which lie, as a spiritual entity had 
figured. A scene, that in its matchless glory of senti- 
ent, active life in exalted planetary spheres of beauty 
and light cannot be described in mortal speech. For a 
few moments this vision held his sight then slowly van- 
ished, but not before he had seen himself as he had been, 
magnificent as a planetary being, and knew that he 
should yet again become like unto the majestic being 
who had come to give him advice. For now it was the 
turn of Constantia to speak, to return thanks and recog- 
nition for what had been imparted to him not only at this 
interview but also at various times through the seership 
of Stancia. To pledge himself to rear his son Fontis in 
such a manner as could only bring out the noblest quali- 
ties of a future leader, and of a child of the skies who 
was destined to become the sire of lofty men. At the 
close of his speech Constantia became aware of another 
presence by his side and looking up he discovered that it 
was Stancia standing apparently in mid air and regarding 
him with smiling and approving eyes. But it was not 
Stancia in the mortal who had thus glided to hi3 side, 
but Stancia in spirit who had left her mortal form asleep 
in her own private apartment and had wandered to join 
her mate. 

At her approach the planetary spirit made salutation 
to which she responded, for in spirit she knew him well 
as one of the great and glorious guides who had to do 
with the affairs of earth, and who had previously been 
presented to her as one of her special guides, then the 
visitor passed the scroll in his hand to Constantia and as 



160 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

he did so he arose, made a gesture of farewell and sailed 
forth into the upper air vanishing in a moment as disap- 
pears a wreath of mist. But Oonstantia held the scroll 
in his hand, he also knew that it had been no myth or 
phantom that had attended him but a veritable human 
being visitant from another planet, as he turned towards 
Stancia he realized that she trembled, and that she 
was breathing these words to him : 

"The body calls me, Fontis awakened and needs my 
care. I go, follow me at once. " In a moment she too 
was gone leaving Constantia in the deepening twilight to 
make his way slowly and thoughtfully home. 

An hour later Constantia and Stancia were seated beside 
the tiny crib of their infant son. The little one lay upon 
his bed in a semi slumber, his rounded limbs and parted 
lips making up a pretty picture of infant beauty and 
innocence. 

Constantia unrolled the scroll in his hand, upon it were 
imprinted golden characters such as he understood. He 
began to read them aloud whilst Stancia listened with 
strained ears and bated breath, for this herald from the 
spheres had come to them in a most uncommon way. 

It opened thus : 
"To Constantia 

and to the people of Atlantis 

Greeting from the Planet Mars, 

Greeting and love from Kindred on the Planet Mars. 

Greeting and instruction from helpers on the planet 
Mars! 

"To the people of Atlantis, Greeting! 

Know ye that to Constantia and Stancia hath been born 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 101 

a male child, even Fontis the offspring of planetary love, 
know ye that Fontis hath been sent to earth to open out 
great storehouses of wisdom from the Supernal realms, 
thus be it declared that for the period of twelve years 
Fontis must be isolated from the world and held only in 
charge by the high priests of all the councils. At the age 
of thirteen Fontis will appear to the world and then shall 
light and wisdom be given the nation through his speech. 
For twelve years will Fontis lead his people then shall 
Fontis and such young men as he shall select, twelve in 
number, set sail upon the sea'to unknown lands. Fontis 
and his men shall find favor in the distant islands and they 
shall take to themselves mates and rear offspring and 
found homes in these far off lands. They shall teach the 
people of these lands, of Atlantis and give to them its 
traditions and legends with a prophecy of its doom, and 
these records shall he preserved that future ages may 
learn of them. When twelve more years shall pass, Fon- 
tis shall return to Atlantia the land of his birth, leaving his 
friends and they who were his former fellow voyagers be- 
hind him, and they shall travel in ships to divers countries 
and found homes and settle families there. But Fontis 
will become a new leader and teacher to his people. Then 
will Fontis become the sire of children who will in turn 
become great men, and these two children will each beget 
a Son who will be leaders and teachers of men and who 
in turn will beget great men who will be leaders of differ- 
ent districts when the Doom of Atlantis falls. These 
last shall be known as Cabul and Iberna, the great ami 
good. All this is prophesied from the Planet Mars by 
the prohets who read the histories of worlds ami who mark 



162 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

the career of individuals. Thus is the prophecy made 
that the people of Atlantis may hand it down to future 
generations as a sign of the wisdom and the power of pla- 
netary souls. 

XXVIII. 

And all things came to pass in the history of Atlantis 
that had been transcribed upon the scroll, which the pla- 
netary spirit had mysteriously borne to Constancia. And 
Fontis the child grew and waxed strong in the goodness 
and grace of youth. As Constantia the president of the 
republic was at the time high priest of all the councils so 
had he the power and privilege — even to the Planetary 
instructions of keeping his child under his own control 
and instructions for a period of twelve years during which 
time the boy associated with no one save his parents, and 
the spirit entities who came to instruct and bless him 
from the exalted planes of immortal life. At the age of 
thirteen, as had been declared, Fontis appeared before the 
world as a teacher and guide to the people, he was attended 
by one wise man of Etruria — travelling over the continent 
preaching and blessing the people — for through his 
agency many new and wonderful things were revealed. 

At the expiration of his allotted twelve years in this 
work Fontis with twelve selected young men embarked on 
their ship, and set sail for a foreign shore, guided by 
the instructions of the high intelligences who ruled his 
life. Fontis made his way to a far distant port in the 
Pacific Ocean, where the extreme western portion of 
North America is now situated. There he and his 



TUTELARY GODS AXD A^CIEXT SPIRITS. 163 

friends found a tract of land that was fertile, and was 
peopled by a race of bronzed tinted human beings of 
strange speech and of gentle manner. These people gave 
welcome to the strangers and entertained them in their 
huts or tents of bark and leaves. 

The people of this new shore although kindly and intel- 
ligent were far inferior in point of skill and mechanical 
execution to the inhabitants of Atlantis, and the young 
Atlantians set to work to teach them many things which 
would enable them to add to their comfort and know- 
ledge. 

Here, Fontis and his friends lingered upon this Island, 
and others which the} 7 visited in the vicinity, building 
themselves pretty homes and taking to themselves wives 
from the daughters of the Chiefs of the tribes. These 
maidens were gentle and beautiful creatures of Nature 
who easily learned the tongue and the customs of their 
Atlantian mates, and soon came to intelligently converse 
upon the subjects that were presented to them. They 
were comely of face with long and beautiful black hair, 
large and lustrous eyes, finely carved features and of 
graceful figure. Of these wives, were born to their 
Atlantian mates offspring who were reared according to 
the customs of the Atlantians, and unto whom as to their 

native mothers was imparted the history of Atlantis 

as well as the prophecy of its doom. 

Fontis had chosen for his bride the sweet and pretty 
daughter of the head Chief of the Nation, and she had 
gladly responded to his love. She was a sensitive crea- 
ture of great psychical power and through her medium- 
ship, her mother who had passed from earth before the 



164 TUTELAEY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

coming of the Atlantians had predicted her union to a 
strange man and one who should come to her home from 
a far off land. And all that had been told did come to pass 
and Fontis married the beautiful child of Nature whom 
he adored and their home was an Ideal one. Fontis and 
Fontina — as he called his bride — opened a school of 
manual and intellectual training into which were taken 
all the young people of suitable age, and many of the 
older ones as well and many things of value were impart- 
ed there while all the people were growing in such 
knowledge and experience as they had never before. 

But time passed and Fontis had been the husband of 
Fontina for ten years, when the aged sire of his spouse 
passed to the higher realm. At his death, the people 
wished to make Fontis Chief of the Island — but he 
would not have it so, declaring that his time among 
them would soon be out and that he and his family must 
in a year sail away to Atlantis his boyhood home. 

Then Justa, one of the boon companions of Fontis and 
Justina his wife, were made rulers of the tribe and the 
people were well content. 

Another year passed and Fontis made it known that he 
must not longer tarry away from Atlantian shores. 

Then the vessel that for twelve years, had been utilized 
in the near waters of the Island, was refitted and made 
ready for Fontis and his beloved ones, and at last the 
hour of parting came, and the dear home and the dear 
people who had grown into the very life of Fontis and his 
family were soon left far behind. In due time the voy- 
age of Fontis was made, and at length he arrived at the 
home of his earlier years. 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 1G5 

But as is known he came not alone for although he had 
left behind him ail who had twelve years before sailed 
from Atlantis by his side, he now returned to the beloved 
continent not only with a beautiful and gracious wife, 
but also with a charming little son who had been born 
upon ship board midway between the island birth place 
of his mother and the Atlantian natal place of his sire. 
Beside his wife and infant son, Fontis brought with him 
two of the native sons of the island and their wives who 
had refused to part with Fontina, and who elected to go 
where ever she should go. 

As well may be believed there was rejoicing and great 
display made not only at Etruria but in various parts of 
the Continent over the return of Fontis. 

His parents who were still living were waiting to wel- 
come him with open arms, and all of his former friends 
stood ready to take him again to their hearts. 

And so it came to pass that Fontis settled in a home 
at Etruria and did whatsoever the spirit commanded him 
to do, and in time he became the sire of another male 
child, and he devoted much time to the training of his 
children, and also in conducting the affairs of the people 
who had placed him in high position. 

And as the time went on all things became fulfilled as 
had been foretold although as if a part of the prophesy 
would fail for to the descendents of Fontis offspring were 
not born until the male parent had attained to a great 
age, so that by the time Iberna and Cabul came to earth 
more than two hundred years had passed from the day 
when Constantia — who in the fullness of time had 
passed on to Planetary Spheres — had received the 



166 TUTELARY GODS A1STD ANCIEXT SPIRITS. 

scroll from the mystic visitor in the grove of Etruria. 

But in time all things were fulfilled, and in the last 
Century of Atlantian History, Iberna and Cabul respec- 
tive sons of twin brothers, were born, and these two chil- 
dren grew to be men and leaders of men, and each was 
given office of high priests over seperate districts which 
office and leadership were still theirs when the awful 
calamity occurred that swept a Nation and a continent 
from the face of the earth, and all that had been prophe- 
sied and commanded had come to pass. 

But on the far off island that had once been the home 
of Fontis and Fontina the Natives lived and thrived, and 
the descendents of the twelve who had taken up their 
homes there on, grew powerful and strong and from them 
was born sturdy stock that also reared offspring, some of 
whom sailed away to unknown seas and made homes for 
themselves in foreign lands. 

And some of these found the land of Asia and establish- 
ed homes there and became the progenitors of other 
races and tribes, and although terrible storms sometimes 
lashed the earth in one quarter or another and tidal waves 
swept in fury over the land here and there, and convul- 
sions of Nature in one place or another seemed to threaten 
the planet with the crack of doom, yet in one part or 
another some human creatures, survived the shock and 
storm, escaping from one part to another of the world 
when the fury of the elements threatened to sweep them 
down, thus from these remnants of tribes and races, 
were preserved specimens of the old Atlantians — and 
other — people, although in a degenerated state, for being 
at the mercy of the wind and wave, and beaten about 



TUTELARY GODS AND AXCIEXT SPIRITS. 167 

from' place to place they could not preserve the glory and 
dignity of their ancestry nor the prestige of great presen- 
ces from beyond. Struggling and coping with the condi- 
tions of poverty, famine, tempest and danger of various 
kinds, these people did well to keep their footing on the 
Earth, and to preserve the legends and the traditions of 
Atlantis and of the Pacific Isles. 

But all had been fulfilled and the glory of Atlantis as 
a grand and progressive world and race, has departed 
from the face of the earth. Yet the noble old Atlantians 
live in higher realms. They are now Ancient spirits — 
some of them even consorting with Gods and Tutelary 
beings. Some of them achieving the marvelous works of 
Gods. They are living, grand, and conscious entities, 
who can engage in making worlds and in bringing the 
affairs of nations into line with the progress of the ages. 

They still live, not as mummies nor as fossils of a de- 
cayed past but as active entities whose power is beyond 
the scope of mortal expression, and whose glory cannot 
be depicted by human tongue. 



XXIX. 

In the fullness of a ripened age, Constantia beloved of 
all the Atlantians passed from earth. Stanoia had like- 
wise departed, but although it might be said that she had 
died, as her physical form had yielded up it's spirit, yet 
one could not make her aged consort Constantia believe 
that she had departed from him. For there was scarcely 
an hour at a time when the rejuvenated and beautiful 



168 TUTELAKY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIEITS. 

Stancia was not by his side. Nor was she invisible to 
him or to her people, for the inner sight of the aged man 
had become so keen, he could behold his wife at any- 
time, and as for Fontis and his family each of them were 
blest with spiritual vision and were able to behold the 
beautiful Stancia who had become their guardian and 
guide. For a few years after her translation Stancia con- 
tinued to linger by the side of Constantia, and then she 
informed him that for half a year she should absent her- 
self after which she would return to him and conduct 
him to his spirit home, for at the expiration of that period 
his heavenly abode would be ready for him. It would 
be necessary, she said, for her to be absent for a while as 
he was living in part on the magnetism which she impar- 
ted to him, and the guides of the wisdom spheres had 
admonished her that in order for her to draw him to the 
spirit world, she must leave him long enough for the 
magnetic forces that he had already imbibed to lose their 
energy that his hold on earth might become lessened. 

Then did Constantia learn that his time to pass from 
earth had come. But there was no fear or trembling in 
his heart, for well did he understand that the passage 
from earth to immortality is but a step, and that no spirit 
can lose his hold on life. 

There was no fear of death in the far off period of At- 
lantian history. No tale of endless punishment or 
misery had even been made known to the people. No 
thought of an angry or vindictive God had ever disturbed 
the human mind. 

Legends and traditions of the past only told of a 
happy, peaceful, and intelligent humanity that had risen 



TUTELAR* GODS AND AM n;\T SPIRITS. L69 

to worlds of beauty and gardens of delight from which 
they scattered blessings down upon the new born genera- 
tions of earth. 

And the Atlantians knew they had nothing to fear. 
They knew that death was but the deliverer to open wide 
the door of escape from narrow conditions to broader 
environments, they knew that omnipotent love must be 
superior to finite love, and they understood that earthly 
love would not see its offspring fall. 

Therefore they were not afraid. Inspired teachers 
had taught them of the higher life, and had shown them 
how to advance in high culture and spiritual power. 
'I'll us the beauty and the purposes of Life were shown to 
them, and they looked forward to the hour of their deliv- 
erance with satisfaction and joy, preparing for it as one 
in these days prepares for the wedding hour or for the 
advent of some joyful occasion. At the same time eacli 
Atlantian was content to wait his summons to the spirit 
world, and to do his works on earth with fidelity and 
skill. He knew that it was wise to live as long as possi- 
ble and to take the best care of the body that the spirit 
might express itself with intelligence and power, therefore, 
while he anticipated and knew the larger life that await- 
ed him in the Spheres, yet, he was prepared to linger 
on earth and reap his experiences until the summons came 
for him to go. 

For three months after Stancia's departure, Constantia 
continued to be busy with his affairs after which he gra- 
dually withdrew from the world, and passed his days in 
silent contemplation or in serene soul communion with 
the exalted ones of the heavenly spheres. Although 



170 TUTELAEY GODS AHD AKCIEKT SPIEITS. 

aged — as to years — the form of this patriarch was as erect 
as in his earlier years, the bloom upon his cheek and 
the sparkle of his eye were also bright, and while the 
whole body wore an air of vigorous strength that was 
rather the embodiment of health and of life than of waste 
or death. 

But as the hours of his voluntary seclusion wore on a 
marked change came over the man. His form became 
gradually shrunken, the bloom left cheek and lip, the en- 
tire framework seemed to be growing smaller and only the 
light of the deep dark eyes remained — a light that was 
more of the inner than of the physical man. 

All the world knew that Constantia was about to leave 
them — but there was no mourning or sign of loss or woe. 
Every one rejoiced at the good fortune of their beloved 
leader, who had won the distinction and the honors he 
was about to receive, for who could dream of mourning 
for one who had passed his initiative degree and grade 
and was about to he promoted to a higher state ? 

While there was no royal station for any one upon At- 
lantis, as the Nation was a republic in Government and in 
sentiment yet special colors were used on special occas- 
sions to mark the expected transition of one in high posi- 
tion or of great dignity of character, and thus, the regal 
color, purple, was selected as the draperies and festoon 
with which the great Temple of Etruria was to be deco- 
rated at the approaching ascension of Constantia. For 
three weeks before his departure the grand old man daily 
received visits from the high officers of state who came 
to him from the various districts of the Continent, who 
came to hold audience with him concerning his going 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 171 

to another world, and to give him messages to one 
and another of their people in the spirit world whom 
he would meet in his journey through the spheres. 
During these weeks the Temple and the various 
public buildings of Etruria as also was every Temple on 
the Continent, were hung with draperies of the richest 
purple tint and of soft and silken hue. But if the drap- 
ings were of regal color thev were not of woe, for they 
were simply the sign and token of a great souls passage 
from death to eternal life. Three weeks passed, and the 
aged sire knew that his hour was nigh — for in the soft, 
balmy watch of the night he had been awakened by a 
gentle touch upon his hand, and he beheld Stancia beside 
his couch. She was more beautiful now than he had 
ever seen her before. Beautiful in all the radiance of a 
Planetary Angel and as she smiled and beckoned to him, 
she seemed like some enchantment that presently might 
fade away. But no, she lingered and obedient to her 
gesture the patriarch arose and donned the snowy robe of 
ascension that had been waiting for him these many days, 
then seating himself by the window that faced the dawn 
he waited for the end. A celestial light shone on his 
own visage, which was lighted up with newborn beauty 
and power. His form had dwindled away during the 
three months past to seemingly but one half its former 
size, for the guardian spirits who had been protecting 
him had been drawing from its elements and forces from 
which his spirit body was now composed, and that portion 
of his being that would be left behind was but the purely 
physical of which the spirit would have no part. 

The sound of celestial music now rent the air filling 



172 TUTELARY GODS A^TD AKCIENT SPIRITS. 

the dwelling with richest melody and rousing the sleeping 
inmates to the knowledge that the supreme moment had 
come. Presently Fontis and Fontina appeared at the 
door, and in a moment more they stood by the aged lead- 
er's side. But he was not there, only the clay cold 
form so slight and wan which they tenderly laid upon his 
couch, for painlessly and without a sigh Constantia had 
slipped from the mortal, and like a bird let loose was now 
soaring with Stancia by his side into the blue ether to- 
wards the planetary Zones. 

The signal of release was given and instantly the purple 
drapings of the buildings were removed, and snowy hang- 
ings of richest lace were festooned in their place — for a 
soul had passed out of bondage into life, into freedom, 
and what so fitting to tell the tale, as chords of sweetest 
music, and hangings of purest white as emblems of peace 
and rest. And so sweet music rang forth, and all the 
city felt the harmony that heaven sends forth at the as- 
cention of a lofty soul. 

Then went the signal forth over all the land, and the 
public buildings of each district lost their purple hue and 
assumed the badge of snowy white, and for two weeks 
these lacy streamers fluttered in the gentle breeze. 

For a week the body of Constantia was laid in the tem- 
ple over which a mighty mystic service of the ancient 
order that had been founded through the mediumship of 
Stancia was held, after which it was consigned to the 
funeral pyre and burned upon its bed of fragrant flowers 
and spicy boughs. 

These Ancients believed in cremation and they practic- 
ed it. They had no grave yards filled with lowly mounds, 



TUTELAR"* GODS and a\«m:nt SPIRITS. 173 

but the bodies of their dead were consumed by the fire, 
and their ashes strewn to the wind, for they argued thai 
all that was potential for conscious, sentient, intelligent 
life had gone from them and that these ashes belonged t<> 
the earth. 

Thus passed on a great and good man. Constantia 
who had for thousands of years moved in circles of light 
in the great Beyond, and whose power and strength have 
made many human souls blessed, for he has uplifted 
thousands from a condition of weakness and blight into 
one of strength and of new life. 

Oh blessed soul Constantia, thou and thy immortal 
mate doth work in God like ways for the benefaction of 
thy fellow men ! 



XXX. 

But the descendents of Constantia and of Stancia -till 
lived after the decease of that nobly mated pair. 

Fontis and Fontina with their beautiful children were 
new doing a work for humanity, us important and valuable 
in spiritual and in intellectual training as that of their 
ciders had been. And years passed on bringing only the 
vigor and bloom of ripening powers and culture to the 
lofty souls, until the period approached in which Fontis 
at the advanced age of a century also ascended to the 
planetary spheres. As it was with his sire so was it with 
his noble soul, preparations were made by him to take a 
journey. Messages were given him by one and another of 
his people to hear to celestial beings whom ho was sure to 



174 TUTELAKT GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

meet in his travels through the spiritual spheres. And 
like unto his sire too, did Fontis pass on without a tremor 
or a sigh. Conscious of the presence of his guides and 
relatives, beholding them in the clear light of the day that 
streamed about him, he went into the spiritual realm, not 
as one goes into an unknown land, but as one passed out 
to a home and condition with which he is familiar and 
that he is glad to reach. And there was rejoicing 
through all the land, rejoicing because Fontis was so be- 
loved. The people knew that he was a wise and good man 
and that he had earned a high place and grand distinction 
in the beautiful heavens and they rejoiced for him, and 
there was the sounding of musical instruments, and sweet 
singing of hallelujahs in every Temple of the land, for a 
great soul had been freed from earth and ushered into the 
kingdom of the blest. 

Among the traditions of Atlantis was the following as 
nearly as it can be. translated. 

"Once in the dim ages of the past two waterfowl rested 
upon a broad green leaf in the midst of a marshy pool, all 
around them was only miry clay in the midst of 
which the pool reposed, and the fowl looked at each other 
and wondered from whence they came, for they had been 
brought there from a beautiful stream of life on the spir- 
it plane, but here all was cold and dark, all at once a 
great light shone around them, and as it fell upon the 
rusty pool its waters became clear and limpid and its 
depth glimmered white like burnished sand, and the fowl 
were glad, and they flew from the broad green leaf and 
skimmed the now sparkling waters of the pool, which 
under the mysterious light extended until they became 



TUTELARY GODS AXD AXCIF.NT SPIRITS. L75 

the sparkling waves of a beautiful sea. And the light 
still shown, and the dark and miry banks of the sea turned 
green and brilliant with blooming flowers. And still the 
light shone on and the mated pair of fowl swam to the 
shore and made them a nest, and soon in that little nest 
an egg was laid. And the Mystic light shone on. it 
warmed the egg in the nest until its shell was pierced, 
and from which protruded a tiny head and the light shone 
on, and the little form in the egg outgrew its covering 
and it lay upon the flowery sward. And the light shone 
upon the tiny form that had outgrown the egg^ and the 
form straightened and grew but its little body was not 
covered with the skin of a bird but with a soft and 
downy fur or hair, and the light shone on, and that 
which in the body of the waterfowl had been an incipient 
wing, in the body of the tiny tbing became an incipient 
hand; and the light shone on. Then that which had 
grown from the egg raised itself in strength from the 
sward and it stood upon two feet, and stretched forth two 
hands, and its head was round and the face was that of 
intelligence and the body that of a man, and the light 
shone on. The waters of the blue sea sparkled and shone. 
The mated water fowl riding upon the crest of the wave 
came and looked upon the strange thing that had come 
from the egg, and when they saw the face of intelligence 
and the form of man covered with it's downy coat of 
fur, they each arose upon spreading wings ami sailed alofl 
far np in the ether blue, to return no more. Bui the 
light shone on, and tin; man walked in its rays and grew 
strong, in t he light of the mystic rav, he wandered on 
until he came to a greai tree that spread its branches 



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176 TUTELAKY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

low to the ground and amid them he found a resting place 
and food, for the treee was covered with rich fruitage and 
it was pleasant to the eye and sweet to the taste, food 
and drink was the fruitage of the tree to man for its 
juices were like clear waters that were as honeyed dew dis- 
tilled from flowers, and in the fork of the tree where 
branches met, he made him a couch where he slept and 
dreamed of immortal powers and of spirits of the air, and 
the mystic light shone on, and the days and nights rolled 
a pace and still the man grew, and the fur coat began to 
fall away, little by little its hair fell out — and the light 
shone on, and in the mystic rays of the light the fur cover- 
ing was replaced by a fine and snowy coat of skin that was 
goft and beautiful to the sight, and again the man slept. 
But his coat of hair was gone and he felt chilly in his suit 
of skin. Then came to him in his sleep, while yet the light 
shone on, a maiden fair as a summers dream, a maiden 
out of the skies who was clad in gossimer robes of fleecy 
blue, a maiden with yellow hair and eyes of violet hue, and 
she bore over her shoulders a great garmet of crimson 
beauty, and this she took from her back and wrapped it 
around the sleeping man, and no more he shivered in his 
dreams for it had brought him warmth. And the light 
shone on, and in it's rays the maiden glowed as a beautiful 
summer rose. She touched the sleeping man with her 
dainty fingers and he awoke, gazing upon the wondrous 
vision of delight the sleeping soul of the man sprang to 
life, and he held out his arms to the maiden of his dreams. 
And light shone on, and in it's mystic rays appeared two 
majestic beings who were spirits of the planet, and behind 
them sailed the water fowl that had sailed above the glist- 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 177 

ening sea and had become birds of the upper air. And 
the majestic beings smiled upon the waiting pair and bles- 
sed them. And in the mystic light the union of two souls 
on earth was formed. 

But the light shone on and the lovers descended from 
the leafy tree and hand in hand they roamed along the 
grassy sward. And he drew his crimson robe of love 
around him and smiled upon his bride, and she in all her 
fleecy daintiness of her blue garment of faith received his 
smiles and was glad. And lo, the majestic beings attend- 
ed their steps, and by and bye they came to a beautiful 
dell surrounded by flowering and fruitful trees and in the 
centre of this lovely spot a snow white tent was spread, 
and they entered while the light shone on. 

Then came the foundation of the happy home where 
love and truth enwrapped the trusting souls, and he 
shared his crimson mantle with his bride, and she took 
from her robes a portion of the fleecy blue and girdled 
him about and love and faith became one soul. And the 
light shone on, while the majestic beings lingered at the 
tent, and the soaring birds came and brooded above 
them, still shone the mystic light, and while all the world 
but this sacred spot that had sprung into fertile beauty 
in its gentle rays, lay a waste of waters and a chaotic 
mass of mud, the beautiful dell became the garden of 
creative force and life. 

Thus the lovers wedded and the planetary beings tarried 
with them and by and bye there came to their delightful 
haven a tiny soul, a babe with kindling eyes and skin as 
white as milk and it flourished and grew for the light 
was never quenched. 



178 TUTELARY GODS AHD ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

And the babe became a man and still the light shone 
on, and he learned many things, how to spin a silken 
thread and to weave a shining web, and many other 
things he learned, and by his skill the tent became a 
house, and by and bye a temple was reared of beauty and 
of power. And the light shone and in its magnetic rays 
a maiden walked, a maiden fair to see who had journied 
out of the upper kingdoms of the blest, and he found fav- 
or in her sight and he became her mate and they were 
wed, and happy offspring graced their home, and the light 
never waned, and all the glory of it fell upon their home. 

But the majestic Beings had disappeared, the birds of 
the air had vanished — the world was rocking in the throes 
of pain . 

Yet the light shone on, and the peaceful valley held its 
own. Time passed, and yet another race appeared, 
coming out of shadowy mists of upper air — and they amal- 
gamated with the first and homes were built and a city 
reared its walls where chaos once had reigned. 

And through the years the mystic light shone on, until 
the world grew out of turmoil, and ceased to rock and 
fume. 

Thus nations came and great Atlantis founded by majes- 
tic beings from celestial life appeared to crown them all." 

Such was one of the traditions handed down to the 
people of Atlantis, and when ever a great man died, a 
pair of water fowl were borne far out upon a lofty moun- 
tain and let loose to sail away into the ether blue, as the 
herald of the coming of a mighty soul. So had it been 
with Oonstantia, as also was it done at the death of Fon- 
tis, and too whenever the child of a great family was born, 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 179 

crimson and blue flowers were hung upon the Altars and 
shrines of all the temples in honor of the robes of Love 
and Faith that had clothed the first pair and consecrated 
their nuptial ties. — So had it been at the birth of Fontis 
as it had been at the birth of his succeeding heirs. 



XXXI. 

The life and progress of the people of Atlantis contin- 
ued to advance through the passing years, and in time, 
Cabul and Iberna, descendants of the great Constantia 
and the gifted Stancia appeared upon the scene. These 
two were sons of two brothers, and a strong magnetic 
cord held them in fraternal fellowship as if they were bro- 
thers, born of one flesh, as these youths advanced in learn- 
ing and in skill the people realized that it was all in 
accord with the prophesy of the Planetary spirit that had 
been traced upon the scroll presented to Constantia in 
the grove of Etruria by his mysterious visitor. Therefore 
were they given special attention and training by the 
high priests of the land, but in a few years they had out- 
stripped the learning of the Sages and Philosophers and 
were themselves well qualified to teach and lead oven the 
most advanced among them. 

And it was known by the people of the country that 
Cabul and Iberna were of the planetary race, and that 
they were high intelligences who had spent ages in the 
exalted spheres of planetary life, but who had elected to 
come upon earth as teachers and leader- of the race. And 
it was also known to the Philosophers and Sages that 



180 TUTELARY GODS AID ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

these kin would be upon the Continent when its doom 
would fall. 

But throughout the various districts the people but 
feebly realized that the end would come within the Cen- 
tury, for although as a rule they believed all the prophesies 
made to them from Celestial Zones, yet they seemed to 
feel that perhaps this final one would be unfulfilled ; or 
at least but that a portion of their beautiful land would 
be submerged. 

But a few remembered the prophesy and because of it 
they sailed away to foreign shores there to establish new 
homes and to perputate their traditions — and still others 
remembered but they believed it was to be their fate to 
go down with the Continent and thus to gain their en- 
trance into the Celestial realms. As the years advanced 
Iberna and Cabul were appointed Governors— and High 
Priests — over large districts, that of Cabul was an inland 
territory not far from the central seat of Government 
while that of Iberna was at the ancient city of Hermenia 
that faced the sea. At their respective districts these 
leaders performed their duties and filled their offices with 
true dignity, and with spiritual power, and each took 
to himself a wife of the Ancient lineage and of high birth, 
but while to Iberna was raised a son of intelectual vigor 
and spiritual power. 

To Cabul all offspring was denied. 

It is not our purpose to dwell at length upon the lives 
of these great Atlantians for we have given sufficient in 
these papers to acquaint our readers with the trend of 
work and experience which were a part of the lives of the 
leaders and teachers of the land, and these last, did not 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 181 

differ essentially from the life of their ancestors unless it 
were in even a greater manifestation of spiritual power. 

Now be it known that in the traditions of the Atlan- 
tians it was held that no male personage could arise to the 
potency of Spiritual impulse and power sufficiently to 
gain guidance over a planetary sphere, or to become asso- 
ciates of the Tutelary God of any planet who had not 
rounded out at least a century of planet experience upon 
such a physical planet as he should happen to be born 
upon. 

And indeed that might also be said of the female Com- 
panions unless they had spent a long period of service as 
Oracles for the divine wisdom of the spheres. 

Therefore if the son of a high priest — who was also a 
reincarnated planetary being should happen to pass from 
earth life, below the century mark, it was expected that 
he would be reincarnated, and become again a dweller 
upon earth, for at least the term that had been cut from 
his former experience and labor and if he should remain 
to a longer period, that was counted in his favor on the 
Celestial side. 

As we have said there was born to Iberna and to his be- 
loved consort Irnie a son. A son, who according to the 
custom of the times remained with his parents at the 
temple of Humenia until his thirtieth year, receiving- 
instruction and guidance from the sire whom he loved 
with the greatest of filial affection. At the age of thir- 
teen he began to preach and to teach, going into the out- 
lying towns and dispensing the truth that came to hi in 
from invisible realms. At the age of eighteen this youth 
was initiated into the Symbolical Order that had been foun- 



182 TUTELAEY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIEITS. 

ded by planetary beings through the agency of Stancia 
centuries before, and he soon became a master of high 
degree in the assembly, as his occult powers seemed to 
wonderfully increase after he had begun to learn the mys- 
tic signs and symbols of the ancient cult. 

At the age of thirty one, the son was taken into the 
Temple and given many instructions by his sire, among 
the things that was told to him was the following : 

"My son," said the aged Iberna, "the time hath come 
for thee to pass through this land, and to bear the light 
of thy spiritual counsels into many homes. Thou wilt 
meet with strange experiences, which cannot be made 
known to mortal man, and thou wilt be attended by wise 
intelligences from beyond. Thou wilt not return to Hu- 
menia for thy work will hold thee in distant places, and 
thou wilt behold the city of thy birth and the parents of 
thy life no more. Yet wilt thou arise on the day of thy 
death to the planes_ of spirit life in which thou shalt work 
and think. Take then, tender leave of thy mother for 
ere the year shall wane, her soul will wing its way to yon- 
der stars. Nor wilt thou behold thy sire again,, for ere 
thy face can be again turned toward Humenia, Atlantis 
will be swallowed up in ruin and all its souls be translated 
to another world. Nor is it best for thee to sail away 
and escape its doom, for thou wilt have work to do in 
spirit with many who shall enter the life of the immortals. 
All who are of sufficient soul growth and training my son 
shall pass into the higher spheres, or to planetary realms. 
Many there will be of earlier years like thyself who will 
not pass on — to them wilt thou be a teacher and an asso- 
ciate. Thou wilt labor with and for them until such time 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 183 

as they ascend to the Spirit Planet of this earth, or until 
they find reincarnation in a future age upon the earth. 
For some there are among them — and thou art of the 
number who will in time become Tutelary Gods of either 
Zones or Planets, and these must complete a century of 
experience and work upon earth. — Thus will they be 
reborn and live for years upon this terestrial globe. 

"Thou knowest, my son, that a spirit continent is being 
formed from the emanations of this Atlantis and its 
people — that is, it is situated above this physical planet 
and that it cannot be disturbed by volcanic eruption or 
tidal wave of earth — that it has minute resemblance to 
this continent even to its seas and rivers its valleys and 
hills. This spirit counterpart is for the use of those who 
shall not round out their natural lives upon Atlantis, and 
they shall take up an abiding place there, found their 
schools, build their temples established their Homes and 
gain their experiences — those among them who are not to 
be the Gods of spheres will not have to be re-embodied 
on earth — but they may be so if they choose but when 
they have gained their experience can pass on to higher 
Zones or to the Spirit Planet. 

Those who are to become gods and guides of Zones and 
Planets will dwell thereon as teachers and guides to the 
people, until this spirit Continent is no more. When 
they will dwell in planetary spheres until their time for 
reincarnation comes. 

When all have graduated from the Spirit Continent that 
have gravitated there from Atlantia, and no more remain 
to enjoy its fruits and scenes, that spirit country will dis- 
solve into a mist and its essential elements will be ab- 



184 TUTELAKY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIKITS. 

sorbed by the atmosphere of earth and again imparted to 
regions of this planet that can appropriate them to new 
forms and manifestations of life. 

And all these things shall come to pass my son, for they 
are revealed to me from the higher realms, and thou shalt 
be reborn on earth and pass through experiences of much 
import and live out thy life to the rounding of the cen- 
tury thou shalt not find in thy present incarnation. So 
be it. All is well. 

Now be it known to thee that thou shalt never be for- 
saken for Iberna thy sire will be thy guide. And he will 
lead thee through strange places and thou wilt meet with 
many things. 

When thou goeth forth from this temple thou wilt jour- 
ney as the spirit directeth thee, and thou wilt in time be 
in the district of thy kinsman Cabul. Abide with him for 
a time for though it be not made known at what hour, 
the visitation of the fire and the flood shall come, yet will 
it be well for thee to tarry with thy kinsman Cabul, that, 
if the spirit willeth so, thou shalt be with him in labor 
when the fate befalls Atlantis, gem of the sea." 

And all these things were held fast in the heart of the 
young man as he journied forth. And it came to pass 
that his mother Irnie soon afterwards soared to the 
spirit world, and in about three years from that time, the 
end came and Atlantis with her glory and her people was 
swept into the sea. But on the Spirit Continent a race 
and a Nation dwelt and all the people grew strong and 
happy until the lapse of thousands of years they ascended 
to^other realms, and dissolved the spirit continent and its 
essentials were taken up by earth, entering another con- 



TUTELARY GODS AXI) AXUKNT BPIRITS. 185 

tinent even that of the North American world as a poten- 
tial force and constructive power. 



XXXII. 

The region of the North American Continent of earth is 
by no means a modern hemisphere, for that portion of 
the globe has existed for many thousands of years, and its 
lands have been roamed over and built upon by human 
beings in remote ages even as these entities have sailed 
upon its seas, and skiffed along its shining streams. 

People of strong and positive temperament dwelt upon 
the shores of the Atlantic ocean and roamed over moun- 
tains^ and plains even to the far off western slope. They 
were of different races and tribes, some of whom were 
more warlike than others but all were simple in maimer 
and of childlike character in one or another direction. 

It is not for us to state the age of the planet earth, nor 
for how many thousands of years it has served as the 
dwelling place of man since the advent of the cave dwellers 
or the evolution of the human type from the higher forms 
and reincarnated life principles of animal life. Nor can 
we extend still further back in the history of the world to 
that period of time in the remote past when a body of 
land and all its beautiful essentials for a finely organized 
type of human life to enjoy, were materialized by plane- 
tary spirits, out of the heart of the seething boiling planet 
that would not for ages he capable of its own forces and 
resources of sustaining life; and when tor the good of 
earth and its future ages glorious human entities from the 



186 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

spheres of advanced planets materialized for themselves 
forms and became dwellers upon the enchanted lands that 
the earth might receive inspirations of magnetic force 
from them and thus be assisted in its evolutionary work. 

But all these things had been, ages before the growth 
of Atlantis as a continent and ages before either the 
Pacific or the Atlantic oceans rolled from shore to 
shore. 

But as Atlantis had arisen and thrived, so had 
other continents and innumerable islands grown into 
being and become a part of the world, and in the remote 
ages of its history the western hemisphere was made up 
of one large body of land and of a large number of islands 
around which the ocean waves lapped and surged with 
ceaseless energy and sound. But the people of this wes- 
tern clime could not at that period lay claim to any spe- 
cial kinship with the planetary spirits nor with any of the 
southern and eastern climes who were reincarnated souls, 
for these people of the west and north were the races that 
had evolved from the lower forms of human life, and 
who were in every respect the products of that wonderful 
development process of energy and potential force which 
determined the "Descent of Man," yet is this a misnomer 
nor does it properly designate the true dignity and aspect 
of that grand evolutionary work for although it signifies 
that man descended from an ancestry that was rooted in the 
animal kingdom, yet it does not sufficiently emphasize 
the fact that this very descent became in its grandeur and 
beauty a glorious ascent for man, an ascent over grander 
and grander heights of growth and progress, of develope- 
ment and of cultivation until from the lowliest conditions 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 187 

of the earth man has gained almost the apex of physical 
and spiritual growth. 

At the period in the worlds history when Atlantis was 
at its height of glory, that part of the world where the 
Xorth American continent is now situated, was peopled 
as we have said by simple races and tribes, who were not 
educated nor cultivated in any of the arts and sciences. 
But as we have before stated, individuals now and then 
started from the continent of Atlantis and sailed to for- 
eign ports, taking up homes snd establishing their customs 
there —thus did portions of their islands and continents 
become somewhat like unto the Atlantian region absorb- 
ing magnetic force of its people through the intermarriage 
of numbers of its young men with the daughters of various 
races and tribes. We have mentioned the fact of a 
Spirit Continent being formed above the physical At- 
lantis and that this spirit world had been designed 
and created by planetary spirits from the magnetic 
and electric forces and elements of the physical con- 
tinent and its people, that it might serve as a home 
and school to the people of Atlantis from the earliest 
years of age to the octogenarians and elders, for it had 
been decreed that not until each had rounded out a cen- 
tury of experience in contact with earth, could they be 
fitted to ascend to the higher spheres. 

In time the spirit continent had done its work. Its 
people had gravitated to one portion of the universe or to 
another, some to the spirit planet, others to the sixth or 
seventh sphere of progress, others to planetary worlds 
spheres in the solar system and others to various portions 
of the earth, either to be reimbodied as mortals, or to 



188 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

serve as guardian spirits as to the tribes or nations or in- 
dividuals of the planet, to whom they could impart their 
magnetism and inspiration. 

At the time of dissolution of the spirit continent, its 
forces were taken up by various ancient and planetary 
spirits selected for that purpose and borne to the regions 
of the northern islands and continents upon which dwelt 
certain tribes in whom were mingled the elements of the 
Atlantian race with those of other nations. And these 
forces and elements from the spirit continent were ab- 
sorbed by the people of earth and they brought a stimula- 
ting power that had its affect in producing new types of 
being — or variations in being — that gave a new impetus 
to the spiritual nature of man, and the ages rolled on. 
Many young men from time to time wandered from the 
islands and continents of the western hemisphere to far 
portions of the globe founding homes in various quarters 
and amalgamating with the people of those other climes. 
Thus were the elements and the forces of the Atlantian 
race carried to all parts of the world, infusing each with 
a stronger and higher power for the blessing and pro- 
gress of all men. 

But in the life of the planet new conditions appeared pro- 
ducing differenciations of climates and of people. But the 
Aryian race which contained the largest quota of spiritual 
element and force and which was largely influenced and 
guided by the planetary spirits that had held old Atlantis 
in their charge, made highest progress in its advance and 
planted its people and status over all the world. Through- 
out Europe and Asia they spread, and from the Ancient 
waters of the Nile to murmuring streams of that portion 



TUTELARY GOBS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 189 

of the globe that embraces the continent of Europe they 
dwelt, varying their speech and customs according to the 
differing conditions and environments with which they 
came in touch. But in this paper we have more to do at 
present with the primitive people of America than with 
those of other shores, for we wish to emphasize the fact 
that this portion of the globe received the essential 
elements and magnetic forces of the spirit continent that 
had disappeared and that these forces and elements im- 
pregnated the atmosphere with a new vitality that of 
itself brought a quickening force to the very life of man. 
And this new power produced within the races and tribes 
the spirit of freedom which became a part of their na- 
tures and which lifted them above the conditions and the 
elements of bondage. 

Thus were the Atlantian spirits especially attracted to 
this continent and many of them became reincarnated 
upon it taking up new forms and experiences in physical 
life not only for their own growth in soul power, but in 
order to teach and to assist the people in their onward 
march toward a higher spiritual cult. Those of the At- 
lantians who did not become reimbodied on earth, but 
who elected to remain in contact with its inhabitants were 
such as Cabul, Iberna, and their class who came as guides 
and helpers not only to individuals but to whole communi- 
ties and it was through the influence and labors of such 
high intelligences that the modern dispensation of spiritu- 
alism has been brought to the world. Under their influ- 
ence psychics have been developed in this modern :i.lt*- 
and the glory of spirit worlds and works have been re- 
vealed not only to a favored few of tin- ehurcli and Bohool, 



190 TUTELAKY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIKITS. 

but to millions of the common people who have received 
the revelation with thankful hearts and have felt their 
souls quickened under its illumination to a nobler and 
diviner impulse and effort for the highest god. 

For thousands of years these Ancient spirits have 
worked for the good of man on earth, while that portion of 
them who remained on — or in charge of — the spirit conti- 
nent of Atlantis till it disappeared directed their atten- 
tion more principally to that portion of the globe — and 
its climatic and human developement — that embraces 
North America, others of the planetary beings and Anci- 
ent intelligences labored in conjunction with the Tutelary 
God of earth over other quarters of the earth. 

Therefore hosts of them were employed in the stimulat- 
ing of human and planetary forces in the direction of 
Asia, others in Africa, others still in Europe, each com- 
pany or host according to the age and dispensation doing 
its appointed work. 

Thus in every age of the world's history mortals have at 
one time and another and in one manner or phase and 
another come into communion with the messengers and 
Angels of the spheres, and these ancient visitors have 
exercised an influence upon the affairs of men through 
all the cycles of the world. 

Thus, Abraham sitting in the opening of his tent re- 
ceived the glorified guests who came to him in the guise 
of men but with the light of heaven, and they gave in- 
structions to him and the patriarch entertained them for 
they had come from far even from the higher spheres of 
the celestial world. 



TUTELARY GODS AXD AXCIENT SPIRITS. 101 



XXXIII. 

Various have been the lands, nations and races of the 
earth over which the Ancient Spirits of Atlantis and 
other prehistoric countries have held an influence, and 
with whom they and their forces have amalgamated for 
good works. Among those who came directly in touch 
with many Ancient Spirits who had once dwelt on earth 
and with others from planetary realms in space were the 
original Aztecs, for before the birth of this people as a 
race the way was prepared for them and influences 
brought to bear upon the country in which they would 
establish a Nation and a home, by planetary beings and 
Tutelary intelligences who knew that the Aztec race 
would display a grandeur of art and skill and of native 
good sence and intellect that would prove of the highest 
blessing to them as a race not only on earth, but in the 
spirit world. 

From the earliest period of Aztec history to the very 
extinction of its people as a distinct and unadulterated 
race, there glowed a glorious line of ancestral power and 
dignity which came from the influence of high planetary 
beings, which gave a lofty and even exalted air to the en- 
tire race. The people were a gentle, skilled, intelligent 
folk, of perfect grace in stature well formed and of hand- 
some feature, whatever of aristocracy there is m the na- 
tural and dignified being of a true manly and woinenly 
humanity the Aztecs had, their knowledge of the sciences 



192 TUTELAEY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIKITS. 

of Astronomy, Astrology, Chemistry, and kindred lines, 
was profound. They understood the law of mathematics 
to a wondrous degree, and geometrical studies were a 
part of the mental curriculum of the students who came 
to the temples and to the priests or teachers for instruc- 
tion. 

The teachers and oracles were instructors alike in reli- 
gion, in science and in mental branches of the more ordi- 
nary class. 

The religion of the Aztecs was a simple one. They 
loved the sunshine and gave this luminary homage, but 
beyond all signs and symbols they recognized a supreme 
source of all power which they worshipped as the creator 
of all — and in their tuneful chants and praises at early 
morn and at dewy eve, they rendered tribute to the Infi- 
nite and Eternal Soul. The Aztecs were a peaceable na- 
tion, they had no desire to prey upon their fellow beings, 
but if they were molested by tribes from outlying districts 
and other shores they could defend themselves with cour- 
age and zeal. Their time was given up to the pursuance 
of peaceful labors and arts. Their young men and mai- 
dens were all trained in a knowledge of industry and also 
in the artistic line of cultivation. Many of them were 
fine musicians, skillful artists, gifted sculptors, hammerers 
of gold and workers of precious metals and stones. Beauti- 
ful pictorial scenes in art and of tapestry and other stuffs 
were wrought with patience and genius. The men and 
women were of like standing in the community occupying 
equal ground of voice and will in all the important 
aifairs of life. 

The Aztec nation had its governors and rulers who 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 193 

were of noble lineage and of wise judgement. Its coun- 
cils were composed of equal numbers of men and women 
each of whom were expected to take part in the delibera- 
tions and to express themselves briefly and intelligently 
on the affairs of the day. 

The temples and many other structures of the Aztecs 
were rich in architecture and in works of art. The 
engravers tool and skill were employed upon these edifi- 
ces to the greatest of advantage, and each public building 
stood grandly forth as a monument to art, learning, and 
to industry, the pride of a nation and the credit of a 
race. 

In the land of Mexico grew beautiful flowers and lusci- 
ous fruits. The people ate the fruits and inhaled the 
fragrance of the flowers and grew more beautiful because 
of them. 

During the progress of the race from a lower to the 
higher state of culture and honor, and grandeur in all 
that went to make up the glory and beauty of its nation 
and its life, the type of civilization that was evolved 
would compare favorably with the higher grades of in- 
tellectual and of spiritual civilization of the present era. 

Among the Aztec people in the middle portion of its 
history several wise and advanced spirits from the spheres 
beyond elected to take up a mortal birth within its pre- 
cincts and within half a century of time, these intelligen- 
ces came again into an earthly existence. These were of 
both sexes, and in time they became clear seers and wise 
oracles who were set apart by the people as propel 
beings for the guidance and instruction even of the high 
priests and leaders of the Temples and of the nation. 



194 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

Nor were they mistaken in their views for from the teach- 
ings and councils of these reembodied souls the country 
took on a new power and prosperity that carried it on to 
yet a higher mark of culture and of success in all depart- 
ments of thought and of achievment for which it was 
adapted and designed. 

In the higher realms of the spirit zones dwelt in the 
purity and peace of her celestial gardens a lovely and ra- 
diant spirit who for thousands of years had served the 
human family upon one and another sphere, as an instruc- 
tor and oracle. Zaida the beautiful had passed on to the 
seventh zone and it was her privilege long since to arise 
to higher worlds if she so desired. But as yet she felt 
that her work and mission belonged to the people of the 
lower spheres and thus she labored among them impart- 
ing a divine light and uplifting magnetism to all who she 
reached, for all these ages Zaida had been without the 
companionship and cooperation of a soul mate serving as 
the instrument of highly advanced beings in her labors of 
counsel and of ministration to other lives. All around 
her were numbers of exalted beings working in pairs, to- 
gether, for the blessing of humanity but she as a special 
oracle of the spheres had pursued her way without the 
union that bringeth two souls into one sphere of harmony 
and labor. 

But now it became borne in upon Zaida that she had 
ministered to the people as teacher and oracle sufficiently 
long, that she should now have a change of operation and 
of environment and that her experience must reach out 
into conjugal relations with her other self whom she felt 
must be awaiting her coming somewhere. Then the 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 195 

spirit entered into communication with the high forces of 
the soul with drawing into retirement she felt herself 
uplifted to the heavens far beyond the encircling spirit 
spheres of earth. 

With all their beauty they paled into dullness beside 
the grandeur of this exalted and magnificent place, not 
words can describe, no pen depict the splendor of that 
supernal state into which Zaida passed, nor the signifi- 
cance and grandeur of the intelligence imparted to her by 
its lofty souls. 

But in that hour of interior research and exaltation she 
learned that her own mate or counterpart dwelt as a 
human entity — a reembodied planetary being — upon the 
planet earth in the country of Mexico as Aztec adept in 
the mystic lore of the ages and spiritual cult of the 
times. That to meet and to become united to him she 
must take up her abode by his side, attend him in his 
works, influence and guide him, and through his seership 
make her presence and her relationship known to him, 
and thus Zaida turned from the glories of the higher 
realms to which she was entitled to promotion, and came 
to earth to the land of the Aztecs — and there in a temple 
of a beautiful city she found her mate even as had been 
shown to her, a teacher and a guide to his people. And 
her soul went out to him and she loved him with exceed- 
ing great affection. Then did she show herself to him 
and he became enraptured of her, for he too had passed 
the ages without a mate. And his soul went out to her 
and they blended together as one Angel, and he was 
never alone, and it came to pass that many who came to 
the temple to learn of the master beheld Zaida standing 



196 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

beside him or working in his light and they learned to 
recognize her beauty and to look for her. And under the 
power of this double ministration the glory of the temple 
increased and the interest of the people were enhanced 
an hundred fold. 

But the day came when a foreign foe invaded the place 
and though the people of the city fought long and well, 
they were overthrown and many of them were slain, 
while others were bound hand and foot and taken into 
captivity. And those who were thus conveyed far away 
were released from bondage and their lives were spared on 
condition of their taking companions of the tribe of their 
captors and settling down among them. And they did so, 
and from this union offspring were raised who bore the 
traits of the Aztec mingled with those of another race, 
and a new type of humanity was evolved. 

But the lover of Zaida was not spared at the siege of 
the city, for the temple was razed to the ground and its 
priests and teachers were put to death, but when the 
master was seized a great light shone around him and 
Zaida was seen standing in front of her beloved and 
shielding him with her breast. 

For a moment the foemen were blinded with the glare 
but only for a moment, and believing this to be some 
mortal woman they rushed upon her to tear her from her 
hold. But as they did so a blinding flash rent the tem- 
ple, and burying all, who had not escaped, in its ruins.. 

Those of the priests who had not personally been put 
to death were burried in the ruins of the falling pile. 
But these were only killed in body the spirit entities lived 
soaring to worlds of delight and beauty on high, and 



TUTELARY GODS AND AKCIEXT SPIRITS. l'.»; 

among them were Zaida and her mate, and they were 
united in all the sweet and holy affections of the soul, 
and for a long period they dwelt in the wisdom of the 
seventh encircling space, but at length they felt that if 
they were ever to be guides of a world or even of a zone 
they were to return to earth to labor for human emanci- 
pation from error and sin. 



XXXIV. 

Now in the evolutions of the cycles of time Zaida and 
her mate had grown into close relationship so that where 
ever one might be the other would feel the pulsations and 
know the magnetic vibrations of the other even though 
worlds might roll between them. And it came to pass 
that planetary spirits who loved them well, began to pre- 
pare conditions by which each might be born on the earth 
and become a mortal worker among mortals. But it 
happened that the conditions for the birth of Zaida was 
perfected earlier by some years than were those for 
Harma her mate who as an Aztec had lived for three 
score years amid the glowing scenes of Mexico. And 
thus Zaida took upon herself mortal birth being born of 
intelligent parents in an humble home. And t lie child 
grew and thrived, early showing signs of wisdom beyond 
her years. And strong psychical powers were developed 
in her organism and she became a seer and oracle t.» many 
of the people who were uplifted and banghi by her minis- 
trations and her instructions. 

And afar off the conditions were ripening for the mor- 



198 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

tal birth of Harma and in time he too assumed the phy- 
sical form and was reared in a strange country and among 
strange but good and honest people. Now be it under- 
stood that both these souls were in charge of high plane- 
tary beings who guarded and guided them and in time cir- 
cumstances were outwrought that brought them together, 
and after much trial and discipline purposely allowed by 
their kindred, to affect them that they might prove the 
quality of their own Atlantian metal and character — they 
were united, and pursuing together a humanitarian work 
for the ignorant and suffering that peopled the modern 
age, they wrought out the conditions which were essential 
to bring them still closer into rapport with the potential 
f orces of the Universe, and to quicken their grasp and 
knowledges of superior things. 

During their earth life these two knew but little of the 
great important lives or career they had formerly led, for 
despite their psychical powers and work they but rarely 
caught glimpses of the past audits achievements, yet fre- 
quently in the night when slumber fastened upon their 
outward senses they would soar in spirit to celestial worlds 
and commune with their own people who were workers 
there. 

From the time of the Atlantians to the age of the nine- 
teenth century of the Christian era, earth had passed 
through many evolutions in its progress and unfoldment. 
To a supernal observer watching the convulsive movements 
of nature, and witnessing the struggles and trials of the 
planet as well as of those races. 

Nations and individuals who were fortunate — or unfor- 
tunate enough to be born upon it — it might seem as if re- 



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trogression instead of progression of the world and its peo- 
ple was the rule. 

But to the advanced and enligtened spirits who knew 
that a world as well as an individual must pass through 
periods of darkness as well as light, sorrow as well as joy, 
storm as well as calm, these exhibitions of tumult and of 
shadow were only the inevitable result of the operation of 
the law of evolution and of involution which must work 
in order for the best results. 

But earth had seen its shadow periods as well as its 
pleasant ones. Nations had risen and gone to decay. — 
Eaces had come into existence and vanished fiom the face 
of the earth. Continents and countries had appeared, 
nourished and disappeared, Dynasties had swayed with 
mighty rule and gone down into oblivion. 

Yet earth rolled on its course and the disorder brought 
forth order, experience ripened into human wisdom, and 
chaotic uncertainty and unrest becoming illuminated with 
the light of the ages, blossomed into intelligence and 
skill. 

Thus the ages and centuries rolled on — thus the sea- 
sons came and went. Tribes and races made thir advent 
and established their lands and homes, and the tide of ad- 
vancing civilization rolled on. The christian era ap- 
peared upon the world like a sweet and subtile strain of 
mu8i"C bringing forth revealments of a long lost and for- 
gotten faith in the personal immortality of the soul. 
And like a strain of purest melody the religion of Christ 
stole from the soul of the humble Nazarene into the 
hearts of humanity. But the world had been defiled 
since the times of the Ancients. It had been corrupted 



200 TUTELARY GODS AND AKCIEKT SPIRITS. 

by false ideas and erroneous conceptions of Deity. One 
spirit entity who had for a time served as the Tutelary 
to the lower sphere had become a fallen Angel. And his * 
counsels and statements had been accepted as from the 
Almighty. The belief in a personal devil had also crept 
into the religous notions of the ages, and altogether wrong 
ideas of the universe prevailed at the opening of the chris- 
tian era. But the Nazarene taught and labored for the 
common good. He was a high personage in the spheres 
who had elected to enter the earthly state as missionary 
and exemplar of right living and of love, special condi- 
tions had been prepared for his coming and although he 
was born of human parents like unto the human family at 
large, yet he was specially anointed for his work by the 
high Angels who gave him power, while for months be- 
fore his birth his mother was overshadowed by the divine 
influence of the higher spheres. 

And the Nazarene came to earth — he lived His life and 
performed His works passing into the glory of the heavens 
to become a worker again for humanity. 

And the Christian era crept on, but the folly and the 
bigotry the selfishness and the authority of men instilled 
into it the falsities and the glaring imperfections of their 
own lives and purposes, and instead of remaining a reli- 
gion of love — a religion of the common brotherhood o^ 
man, a religion of faith in immortality for every human 
soul, it became a religion of blood, of Idolatry. Thus 
the centuries moved on — many of the Ancients had again 
and again been reincarnated to bring a special spiritual 
influence directly into the world — many others remained 
in the spheres as guides and helpers to mortals. Wars 



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and famines, earthquakes, disasters and woes innumer- 
able afflicted the human race. Suffering, disease and vio- 
lent death attacked many individuals, poverty, crime and 
despair stalked abroad, yet, according to the worlds his- 
tory the planet and its people were rolling on through a 
cycle of experience that would eventually bring a return of 
all the glory, grandeur, intelligence and wisdom of the 
past, together with greater potencies and powers for the 
production of a grander humanity upon earth. 

And the centuries rolled on, beautiful nations and 
kingly races disappeared or became so amalgamated with 
other tribes and nations as to have their distinct identity 
swallowed up in the processes of evolution. 

The Aztec nation like many others had lived its life of 
power, pride and beauty through centuries of time, but 
it too had become only as a name or as a tradition to the 
people of the new generation and dispensation. 

We are not writing the history of earth nor of its lauds 
and nations, therefore we do not follow the course of 
generations nor of countries in consecutive line. \\ e 
have only given fragmentary hints of the lives of human 
beings and of certain portions of the globe, knowing full 
well that many nations and many people including Africa 
and various parts of Asia and of Europe have not been 
mentioned, even though they have all had their ancient 
history, as well as their prehistoric experience, and have 
held an important place in the earth's development. I > u t 
as we have before said, it would be impossible to follow 
the line of unfoldment age by age and of planetary or 
human growth century by century, though auch a his- 
tory of prehistoric, ancient and modern developemeni and 



202 TUTELAEY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

experience may in time be given the world as was never 
dreamed of by mortal minds. 

We have written of the progress of the centuries of the 
Christian era, and of the sorrows and darkness that 
assailed humanity, and which continued to afflict the 
race in this modern age, and now we come to the nine- 
teenth century. 

A century that had been prepared for and looked for- 
ward to by the planetary and ancient Spirits who were in 
touch with this world. And the electrical forces of the 
universe were brought to bear upon certain brains that 
were quickened under their influence, and new wonders 
or rather old wonders of ages ago were revealed to man, 
and by its potency the possibilities of electrical force as 
applied to modern mechanics and machinery were demon- 
strated, and minds of earth, stimulated by the influence 
of the ancients were induced to think along lines of prac- 
tical experiment, and demonstration, and many things 
were made clear. 

But the nineteenth century was only the vestibule or 
passage way into a new era of wondrous light and 
force, an era which will open more directly in the year 
two thousand, in which the so called Christian era will be 
merged in the humanitarian epoch of an unfolding race 
and generation of men. 

An era in which the electrical forces of the universe 
will be employed in such utilitarian ways for the comfort 
and convenience of man, that the world will be an abode 
of luxury such as only the dreamer has dared to dream. 

But the nineteenth century came, came with its potency 
and power of great unfoldments, and the ancients had pre- 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

pared the way. About midway in its reigu conditions 
seemed ripe for the advent of spiritual communication, 
that knowledge of the after life might be conveyed to the 
people of the modern age and America with its mixture 
of tribes and nationalities its various elements and condi- 
tions, was chosen for the scene. 



XXXV. 

One of the special and important points that we aim to 
emphasize is, that the planet earth has not been entirely 
peopled by the operation of one law — or rather simply by 
one operation of law. 

The law of causation has produced every type of exis- 
tence upon this or any other planet, and the law of at- 
traction has determined the operation of the law of causa- 
tion and its differentiations. All things are governed by 
law. 

But neither special causation, evolution nor reincarna- 
tion cover the origin and genesis of human life on earth 
and yet, each of these special branches of the law of cause 
and effect is an important factor in the production of an 
intelligent and progressive humanity. 

In the earliest ages of the world planetary spirits elec- 
ted to materialize a portion of the earth — or rather to 
beautify it and by their electrical and magnetic forces and 
emanations quicken its developement that it might more 
speedily become a fitting habitation for man, than it 
could do were it simply subjected to the slow process of 
planetary evolution — and when that portion of the earth 



204 TUTELAKY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIKITS. 

bloomed to their satisfaction these human entities materia- 
lized forms for themselves through which they could 
labor on earth, and build for themselves homes there, in- 
fusing into its atmosphere their own magnetic aura which 
went out in a stream of magnetism over all the earth as- 
sisting in its developement for future ages of man. 

This materialization of human beings as inhabitants of 
earth may be called in a sense — Special Creation, and it is 
analagous to the Biblical Allegory of the first man whom 
God created out of the dust of the earth; while the gar- 
den of Eden of that story, is a symbol of the garden 
spot that the planetary beings created for the habitation 
of the first dwellers upon earth. 

But as has before been told in this work, an evolution- 
ary process of life was going on all the while and through 
the ages there appeared on the planet various stages of 
animal existence one type succeeding another until a 
higher form of animal activity, conciousness, and intelli- 
gence was produced, and when the bodies of these higher 
animals died the intelligent life principle remained in 
the atmosphere, not to be taken up in other animal bodies 
on earth but to be vitalized by the soul -germs of human 
entities that were floating in the atmosphere, and to be 
reproduced in this conjunction, as a higher type of being 
such as became known as the lower forms of human life. 

And as the years rolled on these lower forms yielded 
up their life elements, and planetary action unfolding 
better physical bodies of brain power and thinking capa- 
city, these life elements and soul-germs were again ab- 
sorbed into matter, and herein was produced the potenti- 
ality of both evolution and of reimbodiment and again 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 205 

the planetary spirits desired to bless the world, and as 
the ages rolled on they concluded to lay aside the condi- 
tions of their life in the spheres and to be born on earth 
in mortal form to acquire earthly experience and disci- 
pline — and to become as teachers and helpers to their 
mortal brothers and sisters who had been evolved from 
the animal kingdom and who continued to exhibit the 
traits and properties of the brute creation — only in modi- 
fied and humanized degree — from which they sprang. 
And thus the process of reincarnation extended its powers 
to these human entities and became a special law unto 
such as desired to avail themselves of its scope. 

Now while the law of reincarnation works beneficently 
for the lower types and tribes of evolved human beings, 
and while it serves the purpose of those advanced human 
entities who pass under its provisions for particular pur- 
poses of growth, experience, or of achievement. Yet it 
is as unerring in its operations as is any other law in na- 
ture, and the exalted souls of the spheres who determine 
to enter earth as reimbodied beings know full well that 
for a period — be it long or short, they will have to lay 
aside their remembrance of former activities and associa- 
tions and to merge all conciousness in that of the incar- 
nation and identity that they assume when they take up 
the new form. But this they are willing to do, knowing 
that to the spirit and to eternity a century is as but a 
moment of time, and realizing that by merging all pur- 
poses and activities in the desire to bles* humanity they 
may be able to help the race and earth itself onward to 
higher progress and a grander cult. Nor does any rein- 
carnated, active intelligence remain ignorant of his ex- 



206 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

periences before and after reembodiment when he passed 
again into the higher spheres from which he came, and 
should he elect to be successively reincarnated and form 
parental or filial or fraternal attachments on earth, these 
are well, for he can form no genuine attachments but 
what are of the spirit, and in the larger planetary life of 
the universe they are recognized as the links that bind 
the soul to the great whole or fraternity of eternal bro- 
therhood. 

With the lowest types of human life that have evolved 
from the animal kingdom it can be no question whether 
they prefer to be reincarnated or not. With them it is 
a necessity, all the laws of irresistible attractive force and 
of gravitation draw them into contact with mortal life, 
having evolved from the animal they at first exist in the 
atmosphere as elementals, and are sooner or later drawn 
in contact with the forms of lower human life. In these 
forms they develope an activity and conciousness that 
comes from the quickening force of the soul-germ they 
have now absorbed, but they are not at first grade suffici- 
ently vitalized with spiritual potency to be qualified for 
immortal human existance, hence, on the death of the 
body they remain as uncouth and dwarfed looking 
beings in the atmosphere, until again absorbed into a 
higher type of human organism in which the spiritual 
gains greater activity and consciousness and developes 
into an immortal entity. 

With these lower forms there is no demur against rein- 
carnation it is accepted blindly and instinctively and 
without special conciousness of it. But with advancing 
intelligence and power man becomes a creature of free 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 207 

will and of moral responsibility, and he can as well 
choose whether or not to be reincarnated, as a denizen of 
earth who has the time, means and opportunity, can 
decide for himself whether he shall take a foreign trip or 
remain at home. 

During the progress of the Christian era so called — the 
planetary spirits and ancients who had formerly peopled 
the earth decided that within the centuries of its second 
thousand of years, knowledge and light from the spirit 
world, in actual demonstration of individual immortality 
must be turned upon this world. And in their delibera- 
tions and plans as to the best method and place for this, 
attention was especially directed to America, for here the 
spirit of freedom had been imbibed by the various tribes 
and nationalities who had gathered here or who had lived 
and passed on, and because of the number of planetary 
and of Ancient spirits who had at one time or another 
either became reincarnated on its shores, or influenced 
individuals to come to the country from other lands. 

And it was decided that as humanity was growing more 
and more sensitive and psychical on earth, and more sus- 
ceptible to occult influences and forces that about the 
middle of the nineteenth century the demonstrations 
might be forcibly made through mortal media — of spirit- 
ual and tangible existence of intelligent decarnated 
beings, all of which was brought to pass as annals of mo- 
dern spiritualism can prove. 

Now be it known that through their deepinteresl in the 
dispensation of spiritual truth to man a number of the 
ancient spirits — not only of Atlantis but of other Bphe 
and worlds decided to engage in the work of enlightment 



208 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

and of general helpfulness to earth's people, some of these 
were relegated to earth to become embodied as mortal en- 
tities to serve as educators and leaders to the people, as 
soon as their mortal brains could be developed to receive 
the inspirational force of their advanced guides or suffici- 
ently unfolded in magnetic qualities to intelligently 
generate and utilize the healing forces that could be im- 
parted to the sick and suffering for healthful purposes. 
Others of the ancients were to remain more or less in the 
atmosphere of earth as guides to and co-workers with their 
reincarnated friends, and others, again, were to bring 
stimulating forces to various earth people from the 
evolved kingdoms, who because of their ancestry and 
inherited powers possessed qualities and elements that 
could be drawn upon ani utilized for the production of 
various forms of startling psychical phenomena. And 
thus many grades and qualities of spirit mediumship were 
developed and the .highest spiritual form and instructive 
quality in the ethical line and grandest psychical percep- 
tion including the highest type of prophecy — was of rein- 
carnated media, and there were intelligent people, aspir- 
ational and progressive, willing to be taught by the 
higher school of ethical and thoughtful wisdom — and of 
these were many inspired souls who were seers, prophets, 
teachers, inspirational philosophers, musicians and clair- 
voyants, healers of the sick and humanitarian reformers, 
of this class were Harma and Zaida, with many another 
from their own sphere of culture and thought and as 
teachers and guides were such as Tberna and Oabul and 
others of the Atlantian race who claimed them as their 
kin. 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

L r _ But the more degraded or ignorant of people — includ- 
ing media— who cared not to learn or to advance in 
knowledge or power in the higher spiritual cult, but 
who clung to the things of the past and to wordly show, 
were of the evolved class that had come up from the ani- 
mal kingdoms and who yet patronized the instincts of the 
lower forms, yet under the guidance of high forces using in- 
termediary spirits as agents in reaching these, types of 
mediumship were developed and utilized for the blessings 
of man. 



XXXVI. 

And through those types of mediumship even of the 
lower phases and exhibitions an evolutionary process and 
stimulating power runs, which produces year by year 
an unfoldment toward greater spiritual growtli and 
strength of even the ignorant and — more or less — brutish 
class and of the most improved or ignorant of mediums. 

And thus in the nineteenth century thousands of psy- 
chics were developed and utilized for the manifestation of 
decarnated intelligence to the world and a grand work for 
humanity which has stimulated to higher and nobler lines 
of thought and methods of labor has been wrought. 

Now be it known that among the spirit entities who 
had taken an interest in the evolution of the race were 
thousands of those who had in bygone centuries belonged 
to the aboriginal tribes of North America -and the ear- 
lier tribes of these people had been kindly, simple, and 
affectionate, dignified in bearing and lofty in sentiment 



210 TUTELARY GODS AKD AKCIEN'T SPIRITS. 

and in the spirit world they had been educated and 
trained for special good works. Now as the atmosphere 
of this America had become impregnated with the Indian 
element and magnetism it was an easy matter for many 
of the spirit Indians to work in it in association with 
earthly psychics — and as this magnetic force of theirs 
possessed vital healing qualities these spirit Indians could 
freely impart it to the sick and cure them of their ills, 
and also utilize it for the protection of their media in 
various forms. 

And thus hundreds of spirit Indians were selected as 
guides and healers and messengers and sent out to the 
most of the media of the country who as a rule were bles- 
sed and strengthened by their helpfulness, and spiritual- 
ism became a debtor to the red race. 

But while many of these Indian guides or workers were 
in fullness only Indians who had through the law of evo- 
lution, developed upward through various stages of physi- 
cal a ad spiritual progress to their present places — many 
of the more refined and intelligent were in reality original 
planetary or Ancient beings of Atlantis or elsewhere who 
had at one time been reincarnated for some special work 
or influence among the most advanced tribes of North 
American natives but who in the higher spheres are 
known in their original form and spirit. Yet these on 
coming to earth life as guides and workers assume the 
manner and appearance more or less cultivated in spir- 
itual quality of their Indian incarnation. 

These are usually to be found among the cultured In- 
dian guides of advanced media who are healers and in- 
structors of the more intelligent and spiritual class. 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 2 1 1 

Millions of human beings on earth are reaching out in 
thought and aspiration to the unseen forces of the higher 
life, for guidance and knoAvledge. Many of these can 
only be satisfied with direct communication from their 
personal spirit friends and over and over again through the 
passage of years, they must receive the token of identity 
and the individual message from above in order to be led 
along any line of spiritual culture and thought. Others 
again, having ouce been assured of the living presence 
and intelligent communication of their blessed ones from 
on high, are not contented to repeat the experience over 
and over again but they branch out in new realms of 
thought and research into spiritual lore and law, and ask 
for lessons upon the philosophy of life and the mystery of 
being, from advanced minds in the spheres whom they 
deem competent to instruct and guide them— and just as 
there is a supply for every demand, so is there a response 
to the cry and need of these classes, and while the former 
receives from the seance the continued assurance of the 
love and nearness of their personal spirit friends — so the 
latter, sooner or later are elevated to a sphere of recepti- 
vity and vibration through which they are given the light 
and knowledge from ancient and modern teachers. 

There are others of the ranks of progressive souls who 
can really find in spiritualism no source of supply for the 
demands of their natures. It's modern revelations are 
not mysterious and weird enough for their natures, 
and they are prone to clothe everything, thai cannot be 
explained on physical grounds, and much that can, with 
the drapery of mystery and supernaturaiiflm and there 
are very many manifestations in the universe that seem 



212 TUTELARY GODS AHD ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

uncanny enough to satisfy even such wonder seeking souls* 

And again there are those who love to dip into the 
realms of Ancient lore and cult, and they find in theoso- 
phy certain signs and revelations^ theories, and symbols 
that satisfy their minds and they are content to dwell in 
the realm of mingle 1 truth and of vagary as handed 
imperfectly down to humanity from the ancient lore of 
the Hindoos. 

Still there are other souls seeking the light and in 
their aspirations for the high and good, they ignore the 
conditions and the demands of matter or of physical law 
and recognizing the truth that — in the light of the entire 
scheme of creation and unfoldment "all is good," they are 
prone to overlook the fact that in this developement and 
operation of the higher law, suffering is engendered for 
races and individuals that is not only very real, but 
which also must be treated in accordance with both the 
law of psychics and the law of mind. Yet all these 
classes are reaching out for the spiritual, and according 
to their seeking and their demand the responses come. 

Ancient spirits of the higher spiritual spheres are busy 
working for the uplifting of the human race on earth, 
many of these intelligences belong to other planets yet 
they labor in conjunction with the people of earth and 
may continue to do so for still thousands of years to 
come. 

The glory of this nineteenth century is not so much in 
the grand revealments of science as it is in the glorious 
demonstrations it has made of everlasting, individualized 
life for man. Standing out from its predecessors in mo- 
dern history the nineteenth century flames with the 



TUTELARY GODS A1S T D ANCIENT SPIRITS. 313 

splendor of the spheres that has opened upon it the reve- 
lations of life and works in the world beyond, and Ancient 
spirits are responsible for the work, for they, through 
thousands of years have been instrumental in magnetizing 
the inhabitants of earth with spiritual force that has 
quickened the psychic nature of humanity, and helped to 
bring it into rapport with the celestial spheres. 

Tutelary Gods themselves plan great works, they o\< 
planets and construct Zones, but it is their agents win. 
work out in detail much of the important labor that is 
performed. Tutelary Gods are unseen by personage- in- 
ferior to them at least by those who are not nearly on a 
plane with themselves. Ancient Spirits can be seen and 
recognized by many who have not reached their standard 
or plane of exaltation and unfoldment, who receive of 
their council and ministration, though the beings of the 
lowest sphere in spirit do not behold them as personali- 
ties but rather as rays of light. 

The work of planet building is a noble one, and as the 
mortal child builds his toy house of cards or blocks, so 
the Tutelary and his assistant frame a planet from the 
material and the aura of worlds that he has at command 
But unlike the work of the infant which may be blown 
away at almost a breath, the earth planet lives through 
the ages, an enduring tribute of majesty and power, to 
the intelligence, design and skill that gave if birth. 

Out of the shadow of the mighty past 

The active brain and ceaseless hands of man 

Upon the wondrous Universe hath casl 
The horoscope of God's almighty plan. 



214 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

For Lo! the human hath developed well 

A selfhood that is evermore divine, 
A potency no mortal tongue can tell — 

To wonders execute of great design, 
Magnificent beyond all less degree 

The grand progressive power of the soul 
And man exalted in his majesty 

Doth worlds and systems hold in his control. 

He speaks, and lo, at his command 

The restless waves of force assume 
The form and potency of being, planned 

By him whose splendors every form illume, 
He wills, and lo the empty voids become 

The scene and centre of great moving orbs, 
And all creation sings that once was dumb — 

And matter, spirit energy absorbs. 

Lo ! Man in moving upward calmly sweeps 

All dross and obstacle from out his path — 
Eternal vigilance that never sleeps 

Affords him freedom e'er from Natures wrath, 
All things become subservient to the mind 

That grasps the potency of spirit force, 
And all things fleeting, here are left behind 

The soul majestic, in its onward course. 

Planets and systems spring to active life 
'Neath the perfected power of human will 

Man in potential force is ever rife, 

He can control the world through good or ill, 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. \> 1 •*> 

Man in completeness is a very God 

In grandeur, ministry, and noble power 

The pathway of the stars his soul hath trod 
Infinity in essence is his dower! 



XXXVII. 

Every nation and every race that has ever existed upon 
the face of the earth have had their wise men and pro- 
phets, their advanced minds, their great moral and physi- 
cal leaders who have led them on to heights of power or 
of knowledge, that the race or the Xation could not have 
attained without them. These foremost souls have 
exhibited a mentality, a prowess, and a spiritual cult, far 
in advance of the quality and progress of their times. 
They have been the standard bearers of truth, the heralds 
of progress, who have shown to the world, abilities and 
wisdom that could not have been caught or inherited 
from the ancestry from which they sprang upon the mor- 
tal plane. 

In the direct line of evolution or of heredity. — Inde- 
pendent of the action of psychic law, these great minds 
could not have been born until the earth had j 
through a thousand times as many ages as it has done. 
For the stream can not run higher than its source, an 
the line of human nativity — even through the elevating 
powers of evolution cannot possibly produce phenomenal 
expressions of an enlarged mentality that ia beyond its 
natural power and scope. But the ages have given far 
advanced minds to the world. Minds that in tli ir -rand 



216 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

teachings and philosophical exegesis of the purpose and 
destinies of life have done much to quicken the higher 
principles of manhood and of spiritual cult in the hearts 
of humanity, which have assisted them to become more 
receptive to the influence and inspiration of the heaven >y 
spheres. 

Thus Budha, Confucius, Jesus, and countless other lea- 
ders and reformers in the ethical line of thought and cul- 
ture, and hosts of leaders in other departments of human 
interest and human need have lived and labored for man- 
kind in advance of the age to which they belong. They 
have done their work and passed into higher scenes of 
achievement and of power. Such souls have lived for ages 
in other bodies and amid other conditions. Such are the 
planetary workers of the spheres, or among the Ancients 
who dwelt upon old Atlantis or in even more remote 
times upon the earth. Such souls have been content to 
be reembodied as living entities in earthly form, for they 
realized the work demanded of them. 

And such a history as theirs of repeated incarnations 
that they might bear an influence and a glory to earth 
and its people, independent of any power the planet 
could produce in its own unfolding life, is a history of 
magnificent expressions, of splendid achivements, and of 
holiest purposes for the love of humanity. Beside such a 
record, the desires and inclinations of human beings who 
deny the possibility of re-incarnation because it seemeth 
to their narrow view of life, to shut them out of a per- 
sonal continuity of life or from their individal friends are 
as feeble and flickering as the rays of a glow worm com- 
pared to the glorious sun of Heaven short sighted mortals 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRIT-. % K 

who cannot understand that the spirit per se never loses 
its identity. That forms and names are nothing more 
than to express identity for a season and that they change 
with every ascension of the spirit to a higher realm. 
Narrow minded mortals cannot comprehend that 
eternity is large enough and long enough for the ego to 
pass through any number of reincarnations on every pla- 
net that it desires to explore. Purblind creatures blink- 
ing at the light of the ages and shrinking from the daz- 
ling rays of truth, who cannot realize that soul kindred 
can never be separated, and that they who are really our 
own will continue to be so as long as the spiritual attrac- 
tive force holds them to us and ourselves to them — and 
no longer. 

And it may be as well for human beings to learn on 
earth some of the things that they must learn sometime, 
and one of these truths is that many who cling closely for 
a year or for a century or five centuries — for time count g 
but little beyond — may, in time, outgrow the attractive 
force and psychical association thai binds them together 
and go into other spheres where entirely new associations 
and social ties are formed. But whatever is of the sou' 
lives and remains a part of our life — on earth friends 
sometimes grow apart, even kindred, not because of dis- 
cord or difference of opinion, but because they have each 
absorbed or given forth to the other, all tin 1 magnetic 
force or psychical elements that can be thus utilized and 
attractive force that drew them together has lessened its 
power and ceased to operate as a magnet. And in this 
there is no ground for complaint nor quality <>f discon- 
tent, It is only the operation of natural law. Such 



218 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

> 

human beings who have ceased to cling to each other in 
the closest ties of affection or of friendship may always 
wish one another well, and each be interested in the wel- 
fare of the other, but each can only hold to the ties and 
relationships that the soul unfoldment prepares and fits 
them for, and therefore it is by no means singular that 
many of your friends and neighbors whom you once knew 
and admired — or vice versa have drifted away, either on 
earth or on the planes of spirit life and that no communi- 
cation or correspondence passes between you. 

The Ancients understand the operations of all these 
laws and they work along lines of the least resistance to 
them. Therefore they are in harmony with natural law, 
they are seeking for the greatest good for the largest 
number and they are above all petty personalities or fan- 
cies, having great things to do to ocupy their attention 
and time. 

Great souls are not those who live in the selfishness of 
personal gratification, who are looking forward to the 
culmination of hopes and plans and ends by which they 
may attain some individual happiness or aim. They are 
those who bend energies and talents in the work and di- 
rection of human interest for the struggling masses who 
are plowed under by the implements of suffering and de- 
spair. Yet great souls do not wholly ignore the personal 
comfort and needs of individuals, but these are made 
secondary to the elevation and unfoldment of the many. 

One cannot however expect a child of earth who has 
lived but a few years more or less amid contending condi- 
tions to look upon life through the philosophical glasses 
of the Sages and Prophets of the mighty past who are 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 219 

ages wise in experience growth and achievement. To these 
Ancients the most advanced mind on earth — the most in- 
tellectual brain and highly cultured nature, must seem 
crud3 and simple compared to their own quickened men- 
tality and elegant culture, while the man of four score 
years can only be counted as a mere babe in the scale of 
experience that holds the accumulated wisdom and know- 
ledge of the patriarch of ten thousand years. Oh won- 
derful, wonderful soul-germ that in the original start of 
its course as a living entity bears with it from the great 
source of all life and light, the potency of a never failing 
energy and use. 

Oh wonderful soul-germ that by the law of attractive 
force pursues its way into the very midst of elemental 
forces and conditions aggregating to its self the necessary 
essentials for the upbuilding of an intellect and the crea- 
tion of a useful form! Oh wonderful soul-germ, that 
sweeps in to the midst of atoms and ethers, bearing all 
before it with resistless power until it animates a breath- 
ing mortal form and quickens it with the breath of eter- 
nal life. 

"What is man— Oh God! — that thou should be mindful 
of him", Yea, oh mortal, Soul — ask it of the winds that 
bear your questionings to the uttermost parts of the 
earth. Ask it of the waves that rush in ceaseless force 
from shore to shore. Ask it of the stars that roll and 
burn and sing their songs of everlasting praise to Life, 
eternal Life. Ask it of the Tutelary Gods who guide 
worlds and fasion planets by the skill of created thought, 
electrical force and of vitalized energy. Ask it of plane- 
tary beings who move in majesty with revolving worlds' 



220 TCJTELABY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIKITS. 

Ask it of the Ancients who watch the ages roll away and 
whose wisdom surpasses the power of voice to repeat. Ask 
it of the Supernal whose body the Universe is — What is 
man ? And the responses come from every questioned 
point and force — Man is divine! Man is power! Man is 
personified Deity! Man is everything! and God may well 
be mindful of him and guide him on to perfect glory and 
unfoldment — for man is a part and the life of God. 



XXXVIII. 

Poor shortsighted mortals who hold fast to the things 
and customs of the past, or even ye who cling to the 
affairs and the practice of today, loth to change with the 
progressive advancements of the times — ye know not what 
ye do. Thousands upon thousands of human entities like 
yourselves are clinging to the rock of ages,, or standing 
ankle deep so to speak — in the clay of old time habits, 
thoughts, and prejudices, instead of soaring as immortal 
spirits through the everlasting spheres. JSTor are these 
thousands encased in earthly forms for they have centu- 
ries or decades — it matters not which — ago cast off the 
physical form and stepped into the spirit world. Yet 
they are fossils holding to the old, petrified in the rats of 
self conceit and opinion, unmindful of the grander light 
and larger scope of the spiritual towards which they may 
soar in beauty and with energy, if they but try their 
powers and attempt to swing off towards the boundless 
spheres with the glory of God in view. 

But the timid, clinging entities who perhaps are for 



TUTELARY GODS AND AtfClEHT SPIRITS. 221 

the first time travelling over the pilgrimage of the 
earthly life may be pardoned if they do not see in the 
stars and planets that roll above them the worlds that 
they may in time inhabit if they desire and work for it, 
or the zones and orbs of living glory that such beings as 
they, in the perfection of power, can create. Therefore 
are they objects of compassion and of instruction of the 
Ancient characters who have for thousands of years been 
travelling the chief highways of the stars and practising 
with the forces and elements of worlds for the achivement 
of grand things. So are hosts of earth bound spirits who 
cannot or will not soar, creatures of pity and ministration 
for the higher intelligences to attend. Thousands who 
cling to the old life, to the old attractions that belong 
only to the material to old customs and errors are the ob- 
ject of instruction of these Ancients. But it is not all at 
once that they can be moved from their ruts, or vitalized 
by the magnetism of the higher, into new action and un- 
foldment, and scores of ancient spirits are working in 
harmony with other helpers and guides of the more mo- 
dern day to bring these hosts of enslaved beings to a 
higher comprehesion and a loftier state of thought and 
progress. 

Many mortals who have learned of spirit communica- 
tion have wondered why ancient spirits should be attrac- 
ted back to earth and why they should wish to deal witli 
the affairs of men, and the question is repeatedly asked. 
Why these ancients do not pass so far beyond earth thai 
they can have no power of attraction back to its environ- 
ments. 

Now be it known that only those of the ancients who 



222 TUTELARY GOBS AHD AHCIENT SPIRITS. 

were powerful leaders in the sciences of mortal philoso- 
phy, of metaphysics of physical law and its operations, 
who were in the past, teachers, seers, and advanced 
minds do return to earth and guide and direct their forces 
in their unfoldment and to bless human beings individ- 
ually and collectively by their uplifting influence and their 
instructive force. Many others who have advanced in 
great spiritual exaltation and wisdom spend their time 
and energy in helping and teaching spirits who have pas- 
sed from the earth body but who dwell in the three or 
four lower spheres of spirit life. While others of the An- 
cients have passed on and on from Zone to Zone and are 
filling their places and doing their part in the great scheme 
of being, never returning to earth or giving any special 
attention to its inhabitants. 

The ancient intelligences who have direct access to 
earth and who have communication with or influence over 
certain of its people, are in direct spiritual relationship 
with kindred souls who are reincarnated on this planet. 
Ties of true consanguinity bind them together. There- 
fore the attractive force for the decarnated Ancients who 
come to earth is a most natural one, for love follows its 
own from Zone to Zone, and binds the souls of those who 
are of one sphere or kin together. 

The Ancients who come to earth are those also who 
have breathed their magnetic forces upon the planet; 
the very atmosphere is impregnated with their electrical 
force, the sunshine is tinted with the magnetism of their 
personality, and the soul of the globe has caught its radi- 
ant energy from them and the planetary beings who have 
assisted in its unfoldment and stimulated its evolving 
power. 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 223 

They are the entities who labor long and faithfully for 
the uplifting of a world and for the perfecting of a 
humanity. 

Kaces come and go, nations rise and fall, dynasties as- 
cend to power and are swept away like pillars of sand in a 
bracing wind, but these human entities work calmly on 
undisturbed by storm or shine, waiting the time when 
man in awakened power and perfected selfhood shall dwell 
upon the planet in all the pristine glory and vigor that 
the planetary beings who first took upon themselves 
forms of matter and came to earth to vitalize it with their 
own potential force, possessed. 

There are thousands of media on earth who are sensi- 
tives, media who have lived in other forms in bygone 
ages, media who are here to do an humble or a mighty 
work. Each fits into the place assigned for him or her. 
Each is working-out an important part in personal destiny 
and at the same time doing the bidding of the higher law 
and force. All media are not reincarnated souls many 
of them have lived before as conscious working entities. 
The fact is kept from many of them concerning their pre- 
existence for the work and the duty of the present is all 
that they need to know. Each of the re-embodied media 
is attended by an Ancient Spirit, who watches over and 
helps to direct and to shape affairs that will bring the 
sensitive certain needful and valuable experiences. 
Every child of earth — humble or of high degree— has 
spirit guides and watchers. All do not have or attract 
either ancient or planetary attendants. The guides of 
many mortals are friends from their own associates and 
relatives with one or two more advanced teachers of a 



224 TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS. 

modern age, and in guarding their earth friends and seek- 
ing to exercise wise judgment over them with fore- 
thought of their welfare, this class of guides is winning 
for itself a developement and an experience that is fitting 
them for the higher — and still higher — realms. 

It is through labor, through unselfish thought and 
action, through growth and aspiration that souls arise. 

What the most glorious and advanced ancient has be- 
come may be reached by spirits who still walk the path- 
ways of earth. 

What the Arch Angels and Seraphs of the supernal 
spheres are in light, intelligence and power of achivement 
any one of earth who reads these lines may aspire to and 
reach. 

The path of progress is forever on, and human entities 
who enter upon it may find unnumbered opportunities 
opening before them to thrive, to grow, to learn, to un- 
fold, to labor and to achieve. There is a vast realm of 
possibility still opening before the most progressive soul 
— a realm of discovery and of power. A realm of un- 
explored beauty and of grandeur, and the limitless freedom 
of eternity aifords to the ego that scope and force that he 
needs to spur him on and on to reach perfection. 

Sometimes it is asked of us if the sun of your solar sys- 
tem is inhabited. The sun is not only a great luminary 
but it is also a great reservoir of electrical force which 
sends out its currents with tremendous energy and force. 
Human beings cannot live within its atmosphere. 

The radiant energy is that which the sun supplies to its 
system in the form of force and motor power. The 
electrical fluid is absorbed in part by tutelary and plane- 



TUTELARY GODS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS/ 225 

tary spirits but they do not dwell upon the sun. Yet we 
are told that the sun is made up in part of the essence of 
spiritual force that is of itself the life of soul-germs. 

This essence generates an aura that enters into the com- 
position of the spiritual sun the counterpart of the more 
physical luminary, and this is vitalized by that essence 
so that soul-germs find upon it an atmosphere which they 
can dwell within until they are drawn by the irresistible 
force of attraction to earth or some other planet, there 
to vitalize elements of matter and of ether and to correll- 
ate them together until the union of these with soul-force 
become eternal spirit. 

Every part and portion of the universe has its place 
and use — every atom that has ever existed has rilled a part 
in the great scheme of life. Every pulsation of being 
every vibration of force has its mission and its work. All 
is divinely planned and wisely executed. 

The law of evolution is a noble law, it developes even 
the highest forms of existence and of intelligence from tin- 
lowest strata and condition of being. Causation ifl tin- 
supreme power that governs all things — eflect in every 
department of life and action is but the result of causa- 
tion. Every entity however lowly is an heir to the highest 
attainment though it take a million years to reach the 
throne of wisdom and of light. 

For even the Tutelaries, the planetary beings, the an- 
cient of ancient souls have all been evolved from prima] 
soul germs and simple forms of physical beings upon 
some planetary Zone. 

"The universe is one stupendous Whole 
Whose body, Nature is, and God the Soul." 



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